Earliest riser
Barred Owl
First heard at 12:13 AM.
Birds at the dock
October 19, 2026: 1 species identified by BirdNET listening to the dock microphone. Barred Owl was the most active with 2 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.
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
Barred Owl
Still calling at 1:54 AM.
Busiest minute
1 species at once
At 12:13 AM: Barred Owl.
Character and company
The regular
Barred Owl
Heard every day for 1 day running.
Duet partners
American Crow and Fish Crow
Calling in the same minute 37% of the time this week.
Rising star
Cedar Waxwing
Up 1h 21m active on last week.
Records
Busiest day
13h 18m active
Set on 2026-07-06.
Most species in a day
51 species
Recorded on 2026-07-06.
Longest streak
141 days
Carolina Wren, ending 2026-10-18.
Species heard
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.