15 calls
Red-shouldered Hawk
Birds at the dock
June 2, 2026: 26 species identified by BirdNET listening to the dock microphone. Prothonotary Warbler was the most active with 119 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
119 calls
Prothonotary Warbler
102 calls · 3,700 mi round trip
Tree Swallow
50 calls
Red-headed Woodpecker
41 calls
Osprey
39 calls
Northern Cardinal
32 calls
Chuck-will's-widow
31 calls
American Crow
26 calls · 5,000 mi round trip
Great Crested Flycatcher
21 calls
Carolina Wren
15 calls
Red-bellied Woodpecker
11 calls
Summer Tanager
10 calls
Tufted Titmouse
10 calls
Carolina Chickadee
8 calls
Belted Kingfisher
6 calls
Purple Martin
6 calls
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
6 calls
Blue Jay
5 calls
Great Blue Heron
5 calls
Green Heron
4 calls
Fish Crow
4 calls
House Finch
3 calls
Chimney Swift
2 calls
Common Grackle
2 calls
Brown Thrasher
2 calls
Bald Eagle
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.