Earliest riser
Barred Owl
First heard at 1:24 AM.
Birds at the dock
October 12, 2026: 30 species identified by BirdNET listening to the dock microphone. American Crow was the most active with 2h 10m 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.
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
White-breasted Nuthatch
Still calling at 1:09 PM.
Busiest minute
7 species at once
At 10:05 AM: Canada Goose, Eastern Bluebird, Eastern Phoebe, Fish Crow, House Finch, Red-bellied Woodpecker, Tufted Titmouse.
Weather watchers
Fair-weather singer
American Crow
100% of its active minutes came during calm air.
Fair-weather singer
Bald Eagle
100% of its active minutes came during calm air.
Character and company
The regular
Carolina Wren
Heard every day for 135 days running.
Duet partners
American Crow and Fish Crow
Calling in the same minute 66% of the time this week.
Rising star
Eastern Bluebird
Up 2h 52m 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
135 days
Carolina Wren, ending 2026-10-12.
Species heard
2h 10m active
American Crow
1h 10m active
Carolina Wren
1h 2m active
Blue Jay
56 minutes active
Tufted Titmouse
38 minutes active
Red-headed Woodpecker
33 minutes active
Belted Kingfisher
32 minutes active
Eastern Phoebe
28 minutes active
Brown Thrasher
27 minutes active
Carolina Chickadee
26 minutes active
Northern Cardinal
23 minutes active
Northern Mockingbird
23 minutes active
House Finch
20 minutes active
Eastern Bluebird
19 minutes active
White-breasted Nuthatch
15 minutes active
Northern Flicker
13 minutes active
Red-bellied Woodpecker
11 minutes active
Downy Woodpecker
8 minutes active
Common Grackle
8 minutes active
Fish Crow
7 minutes active
Canada Goose
6 minutes active
Barred Owl
6 minutes active
Bald Eagle
6 minutes active
Cedar Waxwing
3 minutes active
Winter Wren
3 minutes active
Red-tailed Hawk
2 minutes active
Great Blue Heron
2 minutes active
Hermit Thrush
2 minutes active
Wild Turkey
2 minutes active
Yellow-rumped Warbler
2 minutes active
Palm Warbler
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.