Birds at the dock

May 5, 2026: 14 species identified by BirdNET listening to the dock microphone.

Most active Carolina Wren 68 calls
Farthest traveler Barn Swallow round-trip ~15,687 km

Calls by hour

Eastern Time, today

Each bar counts distinct 30-second windows in which BirdNET identified a species at high confidence. The dawn chorus typically peaks between 6 and 8 a.m.

0122537500 calls at 00:00 ET0 calls at 01:00 ET0 calls at 02:00 ET0 calls at 03:00 ET0 calls at 04:00 ET0 calls at 05:00 ET11 calls at 06:00 ET26 calls at 07:00 ET30 calls at 08:00 ET26 calls at 09:00 ET31 calls at 10:00 ET18 calls at 11:00 ET24 calls at 12:00 ET3 calls at 13:00 ET1 call at 14:00 ET14 calls at 15:00 ET9 calls at 16:00 ET9 calls at 17:00 ET0 calls at 18:00 ET0 calls at 19:00 ET9 calls at 20:00 ET0 calls at 21:00 ET0 calls at 22:00 ET0 calls at 23:00 ET12 AM4 AM8 AMNOON4 PM8 PM

Species heard

Carolina Wren
Carolina Wren 68 calls
Eastern Bluebird
Eastern Bluebird 57 calls
Northern Cardinal
Northern Cardinal 25 calls
Tufted Titmouse
Tufted Titmouse 24 calls
American Crow
American Crow 23 calls
Blue Jay
Blue Jay 9 calls
Carolina Chickadee
Carolina Chickadee 8 calls
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Red-bellied Woodpecker 7 calls
House Finch
House Finch 1 call
Downy Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker 1 call
Brown Thrasher 1 call
Mourning Dove
Mourning Dove 1 call
Great Crested Flycatcher
Great Crested Flycatcher 1 call 8,063 km round trip
Barn Swallow
Barn Swallow 1 call 15,687 km round trip

How this works

A microphone is mounted at the dock at Tennessee River Mile 559.5, listening to the lake 24/7. Audio runs through BirdNET from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, an open-source neural network that identifies bird species by sound. Detections at high confidence are tallied here.

Bird photos are fetched automatically from Wikipedia and cropped to the bird with YOLOv8. Individual photo credits are on each species' Wikipedia page.