Earliest riser
Carolina Wren
First heard at 6:34 AM.
Birds at the dock
August 13, 2026: 29 species identified by BirdNET listening to the dock microphone. Ruby-throated Hummingbird was the most active with 5h 48m 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.
Fun stats
A few things the microphone noticed. Every number below comes from high-confidence detections, and any stat that could not be measured cleanly is left off rather than guessed.
The day's rhythm
Last call
Northern Cardinal
Still calling at 8:37 PM.
Busiest minute
5 species at once
At 8:56 AM: American Crow, Carolina Wren, Northern Cardinal, Red-headed Woodpecker, Ruby-throated Hummingbird.
Travel
Frequent-flyer miles
9,747 mi
Combined round-trip migration of 1 species heard today.
Farthest traveler
Barn Swallow
Makes a round trip of about 9,747 mi each year.
Weather watchers
Fair-weather singer
American Crow
100% of its active minutes came during calm air.
Fair-weather singer
American Goldfinch
100% of its active minutes came during calm air.
Character and company
The regular
Carolina Wren
Heard every day for 75 days running.
Duet partners
Osprey and Purple Martin
Calling in the same minute 76% of the time this week.
Rising star
Red-headed Woodpecker
Up 1h 40m active on last week.
Records
Busiest day
14h 19m active
Set on 2026-07-06.
Most species in a day
51 species
Recorded on 2026-07-06.
Longest streak
75 days
Carolina Wren, ending 2026-08-13.
Species heard
5h 48m active
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
2h 5m active
Carolina Wren
1h 29m active
Blue Jay
58 minutes active
Northern Cardinal
52 minutes active
Red-headed Woodpecker
47 minutes active
American Crow
28 minutes active
Tufted Titmouse
15 minutes active
Eastern Bluebird
15 minutes active
American Goldfinch
14 minutes active
Carolina Chickadee
13 minutes active
White-breasted Nuthatch
13 minutes active
Osprey
11 minutes active
Summer Tanager
8 minutes active
Fish Crow
7 minutes active
Chipping Sparrow
6 minutes active
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
6 minutes active
Blue-grey Gnatcatcher
6 minutes active
Cedar Waxwing
5 minutes active
Red-bellied Woodpecker
4 minutes active
Green Heron
4 minutes active
Downy Woodpecker
3 minutes active
Red-shouldered Hawk
3 minutes active
Pileated Woodpecker
3 minutes active
Wild Turkey
3 minutes active
House Finch
2 minutes active · 9,700 mi round trip
Barn Swallow
2 minutes active
Eastern Phoebe
2 minutes active
Common Grackle
2 minutes active
Mourning Dove
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.