Birds at the dock

June 19, 2026: 11 species identified by BirdNET listening to the dock microphone. Eastern Bluebird was the most active with 89 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.

☀ SUNRISE 6:22 AMSUNSET ☾ 8:57 PM01225375012 AM4 AM8 AMNOON4 PM8 PM

Species heard

Eastern Bluebird
89 calls
Eastern Bluebird
Prothonotary Warbler
29 calls
Prothonotary Warbler
American Crow
26 calls
American Crow
Northern Cardinal
16 calls
Northern Cardinal
Osprey
13 calls
Osprey
10 calls
Yellow-throated Warbler
Blue Jay
10 calls
Blue Jay
Carolina Wren
9 calls
Carolina Wren
Brown Thrasher
8 calls
Brown Thrasher
Barn Swallow
5 calls · 9,700 mi round trip
Barn Swallow
4 calls
Red-shouldered Hawk

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.