Birds at the dock

June 23, 2026: 16 species identified by BirdNET listening to the dock microphone. Eastern Bluebird was the most active with 57 calls.

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 6:23 AMSUNSET ☾ 8:58 PM01225375012 AM4 AM8 AMNOON4 PM8 PM

Species heard

Eastern Bluebird
57 calls
Eastern Bluebird
Red-bellied Woodpecker
54 calls
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Prothonotary Warbler
47 calls
Prothonotary Warbler
Osprey
40 calls
Osprey
Carolina Wren
27 calls
Carolina Wren
Red-headed Woodpecker
24 calls
Red-headed Woodpecker
18 calls
Yellow-throated Warbler
Northern Cardinal
14 calls
Northern Cardinal
Tufted Titmouse
5 calls
Tufted Titmouse
Eastern Phoebe
5 calls
Eastern Phoebe
American Crow
4 calls
American Crow
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
3 calls
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Fish Crow
3 calls
Fish Crow
Purple Martin
2 calls
Purple Martin
Brown Thrasher
2 calls
Brown Thrasher
Blue Jay
2 calls
Blue Jay

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.