3 calls
Yellow-throated Warbler
Birds at the dock
May 27, 2026: 18 species identified by BirdNET listening to the dock microphone. Summer Tanager was the most active with 42 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
42 calls
Summer Tanager
39 calls · 5,000 mi round trip
Great Crested Flycatcher
28 calls
Northern Cardinal
23 calls
Carolina Wren
14 calls
Canada Goose
11 calls
Eastern Bluebird
11 calls
American Crow
11 calls
Red-bellied Woodpecker
8 calls · 3,700 mi round trip
Tree Swallow
8 calls
Blue Jay
5 calls
Chimney Swift
5 calls
Carolina Chickadee
4 calls
Osprey
4 calls
Tufted Titmouse
3 calls
Wild Turkey
3 calls
Great Blue Heron
2 calls · 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.