Birds at the dock

June 22, 2026: 12 species identified by BirdNET listening to the dock microphone. Prothonotary Warbler was the most active with 40 minutes active; Great Crested Flycatcher traveled farthest, a 5,000 mi round trip.

Minutes active by hour

Each bar counts the 1-minute windows in which BirdNET identified a species at high confidence (its minutes active), bucketed by Eastern Time hour. The dawn chorus typically peaks between 6 and 8 a.m.

☀ SUNRISE 6:23 AMSUNSET ☾ 8:57 PM0715223012 AM4 AM8 AMNOON4 PM8 PM

Species heard

Prothonotary Warbler
40 minutes active
Prothonotary Warbler
Eastern Bluebird
32 minutes active
Eastern Bluebird
Northern Cardinal
23 minutes active
Northern Cardinal
Carolina Wren
20 minutes active
Carolina Wren
Great Crested Flycatcher
19 minutes active · 5,000 mi round trip
Great Crested Flycatcher
10 minutes active
Yellow-throated Warbler
Osprey
10 minutes active
Osprey
American Crow
6 minutes active
American Crow
Tufted Titmouse
4 minutes active
Tufted Titmouse
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
4 minutes active
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Red-headed Woodpecker
2 minutes active
Red-headed Woodpecker
Red-bellied Woodpecker
2 minutes active
Red-bellied Woodpecker

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.