Birds at the dock

May 29, 2026: 15 species identified by BirdNET listening to the dock microphone. Tree Swallow was the most active with 104 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

104 calls · 3,700 mi round trip

Tree Swallow

35 calls · 5,000 mi round trip

Great Crested Flycatcher

31 calls

Northern Cardinal

29 calls

Prothonotary Warbler

29 calls

Belted Kingfisher

26 calls

Osprey

16 calls

Summer Tanager

15 calls

Carolina Wren

14 calls

Red-eyed Vireo

13 calls

Wild Turkey

13 calls

Yellow-throated Vireo

11 calls

Red-bellied Woodpecker

9 calls

Tufted Titmouse

2 calls

Carolina Chickadee

2 calls

Fish Crow

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.