Earliest riser
White-throated Sparrow
First heard at 6:36 AM.
Birds at the dock
November 8, 2026: 37 species identified by BirdNET listening to the dock microphone. Carolina Chickadee 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
Northern Mockingbird
Still calling at 5:59 PM.
Busiest minute
8 species at once
At 7:25 AM: Blue Jay, House Finch, Northern Flicker, Northern Mockingbird, Red-bellied Woodpecker, Tufted Titmouse, Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, Yellow-rumped Warbler.
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 162 days running.
Duet partners
American Crow and Fish Crow
Calling in the same minute 47% of the time this week.
Rising star
American Crow
Up 1h 25m 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
162 days
Carolina Wren, ending 2026-11-08.
Species heard
2h 10m active
Carolina Chickadee
1h 58m active
Red-bellied Woodpecker
1h 51m active
Tufted Titmouse
1h 48m active
Red-headed Woodpecker
1h 37m active
American Crow
1h 30m active
Carolina Wren
1h 26m active
Blue Jay
1h 19m active
White-throated Sparrow
1h 14m active
Eastern Bluebird
54 minutes active
White-breasted Nuthatch
51 minutes active
Golden-crowned Kinglet
46 minutes active
Northern Cardinal
43 minutes active
Northern Flicker
39 minutes active
House Finch
32 minutes active
Eastern Phoebe
29 minutes active
Winter Wren
27 minutes active
Cedar Waxwing
22 minutes active
Belted Kingfisher
19 minutes active
Song Sparrow
19 minutes active
Yellow-rumped Warbler
18 minutes active
Northern Mockingbird
17 minutes active
Gadwall
16 minutes active
Downy Woodpecker
15 minutes active
Eastern Towhee
14 minutes active
Common Grackle
10 minutes active
Fish Crow
5 minutes active
Red-shouldered Hawk
5 minutes active
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
5 minutes active
American Goldfinch
4 minutes active
Great Blue Heron
4 minutes active
Bald Eagle
3 minutes active
Mourning Dove
2 minutes active
Cooper's Hawk
2 minutes active
Mallard
2 minutes active
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
2 minutes active
Pileated Woodpecker
2 minutes active
Brown Thrasher
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.