1 call
Summer Tanager
Birds at the dock
May 8, 2026: 14 species identified by BirdNET listening to the dock microphone. Carolina Wren was the most active with 48 calls; Barn Swallow traveled farthest, a 9,700 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
48 calls
Carolina Wren
44 calls
Eastern Bluebird
42 calls
Tufted Titmouse
32 calls
Blue Jay
30 calls
Carolina Chickadee
18 calls
American Crow
14 calls
Red-bellied Woodpecker
2 calls
Northern Cardinal
2 calls
White-breasted Nuthatch
2 calls
Downy Woodpecker
1 call · 5,000 mi round trip
Great Crested Flycatcher
1 call
Chipping Sparrow
1 call · 9,700 mi round trip
Barn Swallow
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.