4 calls
Red-shouldered Hawk
Birds at the dock
June 15, 2026: 21 species identified by BirdNET listening to the dock microphone. Carolina Wren was the most active with 80 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
80 calls
Carolina Wren
71 calls
Prothonotary Warbler
41 calls
Osprey
33 calls
Belted Kingfisher
30 calls
Blue Jay
27 calls · 5,000 mi round trip
Great Crested Flycatcher
18 calls
Northern Cardinal
15 calls
Red-headed Woodpecker
14 calls · 3,700 mi round trip
Tree Swallow
14 calls
Brown Thrasher
11 calls
American Crow
7 calls
Eastern Bluebird
6 calls
Purple Martin
6 calls
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
6 calls
Tufted Titmouse
5 calls
Great Blue Heron
4 calls
Red-bellied Woodpecker
2 calls
Black-crowned Night Heron
2 calls
Eastern Wood-Pewee
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.