Earliest riser
Common Grackle
First heard at 12:25 AM.
Birds at the dock
November 10, 2026: 37 species identified by BirdNET listening to the dock microphone. Carolina Chickadee was the most active with 1h 42m 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
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Still calling at 3:34 PM.
Busiest minute
9 species at once
At 9:00 AM: American Crow, Carolina Chickadee, Golden-crowned Kinglet, Great Blue Heron, Mourning Dove, Northern Flicker, Red-headed Woodpecker, White-throated Sparrow, 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 164 days running.
Duet partners
American Crow and Fish Crow
Calling in the same minute 42% of the time this week.
Rising star
Eastern Bluebird
Up 1h 5m 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
164 days
Carolina Wren, ending 2026-11-10.
Species heard
1h 42m active
Carolina Chickadee
1h 39m active
Red-bellied Woodpecker
1h 35m active
Red-headed Woodpecker
1h 29m active
Tufted Titmouse
1h 23m active
American Crow
1h 21m active
Blue Jay
1h 12m active
Carolina Wren
1h 9m active
Eastern Bluebird
59 minutes active
White-breasted Nuthatch
55 minutes active
White-throated Sparrow
47 minutes active
Golden-crowned Kinglet
30 minutes active
Northern Cardinal
30 minutes active
Eastern Towhee
29 minutes active
House Finch
24 minutes active
Cedar Waxwing
23 minutes active
Downy Woodpecker
23 minutes active
Winter Wren
19 minutes active
Common Grackle
19 minutes active
Eastern Phoebe
19 minutes active
Mourning Dove
18 minutes active
Northern Flicker
16 minutes active
Song Sparrow
16 minutes active
Yellow-rumped Warbler
15 minutes active
American Goldfinch
14 minutes active
Belted Kingfisher
12 minutes active
Gadwall
9 minutes active
Hairy Woodpecker
8 minutes active
Great Blue Heron
7 minutes active
Northern Mockingbird
6 minutes active
Fish Crow
6 minutes active
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
4 minutes active
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
4 minutes active
Barred Owl
3 minutes active
Pileated Woodpecker
3 minutes active
Brown Thrasher
2 minutes active
Wild Turkey
2 minutes active
Common Starling
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.