Birds at the dock

June 30, 2026: 19 species identified by BirdNET listening to the dock microphone. Scarlet Tanager was the most active with 162 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.

Species heard

162 calls

Scarlet Tanager

64 calls

Carolina Wren

57 calls

Red-bellied Woodpecker

56 calls

Osprey

40 calls

Carolina Chickadee

32 calls

Eastern Bluebird

28 calls

Northern Cardinal

20 calls

House Finch

15 calls

American Crow

15 calls

Tufted Titmouse

15 calls

Red-headed Woodpecker

11 calls

Prothonotary Warbler

10 calls

Purple Martin

10 calls

Belted Kingfisher

9 calls

Summer Tanager

6 calls

Eastern Wood-Pewee

4 calls

Great Blue Heron

3 calls

Yellow-billed Cuckoo

3 calls

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.