Birds at the dock

May 8, 2026: 14 species identified by BirdNET listening to the dock microphone.

Most active Eastern Bluebird 57 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 ET31 calls at 06:00 ET45 calls at 07:00 ET14 calls at 08:00 ET18 calls at 09:00 ET21 calls at 10:00 ET10 calls at 11:00 ET6 calls at 12:00 ET3 calls at 13:00 ET22 calls at 14:00 ET22 calls at 15:00 ET11 calls at 16:00 ET20 calls at 17:00 ET1 call at 18:00 ET7 calls at 19:00 ET13 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

Eastern Bluebird
Eastern Bluebird 57 calls
Carolina Wren
Carolina Wren 48 calls
Tufted Titmouse
Tufted Titmouse 41 calls
Blue Jay
Blue Jay 32 calls
Carolina Chickadee
Carolina Chickadee 31 calls
American Crow
American Crow 18 calls
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Red-bellied Woodpecker 14 calls
Northern Cardinal
Northern Cardinal 2 calls
White-breasted Nuthatch
White-breasted Nuthatch 2 calls
Downy Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker 2 calls
Summer Tanager 1 call
Great Crested Flycatcher
Great Crested Flycatcher 1 call 8,063 km round trip
Chipping Sparrow 1 call
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.