Birds at the dock
May 6, 2026: 10 species identified by BirdNET listening to the dock microphone. Carolina Chickadee was the most active with 30 calls; Great Crested Flycatcher traveled farthest, a 5,000 mi round trip.
Calls by hour
Each bar counts distinct 30-second windows in which BirdNET identified a species at high confidence, bucketed by Eastern Time hour. The dawn chorus typically peaks between 6 and 8 a.m.
Species heard
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 pulled automatically from Wikipedia and cropped to the bird with YOLOv8 object detection. Individual photo credits are on each species' Wikipedia page.