Birds at the dock

June 23, 2026: 16 species identified by BirdNET listening to the dock microphone. Eastern Bluebird was the most active with 47 minutes active.

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 ☾ 8:58 PM01225375012 AM4 AM8 AMNOON4 PM8 PM

Species heard

Eastern Bluebird
47 minutes active
Eastern Bluebird
Red-bellied Woodpecker
44 minutes active
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Prothonotary Warbler
33 minutes active
Prothonotary Warbler
Osprey
30 minutes active
Osprey
Carolina Wren
24 minutes active
Carolina Wren
Red-headed Woodpecker
19 minutes active
Red-headed Woodpecker
17 minutes active
Yellow-throated Warbler
Northern Cardinal
11 minutes active
Northern Cardinal
Eastern Phoebe
5 minutes active
Eastern Phoebe
Tufted Titmouse
4 minutes active
Tufted Titmouse
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
3 minutes active
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
American Crow
3 minutes active
American Crow
Purple Martin
2 minutes active
Purple Martin
Brown Thrasher
2 minutes active
Brown Thrasher
Blue Jay
2 minutes active
Blue Jay
Fish Crow
2 minutes active
Fish Crow

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.