22 minutes active
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Birds at the dock
July 6, 2026: 51 species identified by BirdNET listening to the dock microphone. Carolina Wren was the most active with 310 minutes active; Barn Swallow traveled farthest, a 9,700 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.
Species heard
310 minutes active
Carolina Wren
200 minutes active
Northern Cardinal
190 minutes active
Northern Mockingbird
156 minutes active
Tufted Titmouse
153 minutes active · 5,000 mi round trip
Great Crested Flycatcher
116 minutes active
House Finch
108 minutes active
Red-headed Woodpecker
86 minutes active
American Crow
73 minutes active
Blue Jay
72 minutes active
Eastern Bluebird
69 minutes active
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
68 minutes active
Osprey
66 minutes active
Eastern Wood-Pewee
60 minutes active
Carolina Chickadee
55 minutes active
Fish Crow
45 minutes active
Purple Martin
43 minutes active
Chipping Sparrow
40 minutes active
Red-bellied Woodpecker
34 minutes active
White-eyed Vireo
30 minutes active
Mourning Dove
26 minutes active
White-breasted Nuthatch
24 minutes active
Cedar Waxwing
15 minutes active
Eastern Phoebe
15 minutes active · 8,200 mi round trip
Eastern Kingbird
14 minutes active
Hairy Woodpecker
13 minutes active · 9,700 mi round trip
Barn Swallow
12 minutes active
Belted Kingfisher
10 minutes active
Summer Tanager
10 minutes active
Indigo Bunting
10 minutes active
Blue-grey Gnatcatcher
9 minutes active
Prothonotary Warbler
9 minutes active
Brown Thrasher
9 minutes active
Red-tailed Hawk
7 minutes active
American Robin
7 minutes active
Common Grackle
6 minutes active
Red-shouldered Hawk
5 minutes active
Northern Flicker
5 minutes active
Loggerhead Shrike
4 minutes active
Downy Woodpecker
4 minutes active
American Goldfinch
4 minutes active
Broad-winged Hawk
3 minutes active
Barred Owl
3 minutes active
Great Blue Heron
3 minutes active
Black-crowned Night Heron
3 minutes active
Yellow-breasted Chat
3 minutes active · 3,700 mi round trip
Tree Swallow
3 minutes active
Scarlet Tanager
2 minutes active
Eastern Towhee
2 minutes active
Mississippi Kite
2 minutes active
Common Nighthawk
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.