Tufted Titmouse

Baeolophus bicolor

common Least Concern

Live from the dock

Active 1,496 minutes across 59 days since May 2026. Last heard today.

Heard today

Hear the call

Reference recording · 15 sec

U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service via Wikimedia Commons, Public domain

When you'll hear it

Most often heard in the morning, 8 to 11 a.m. Quiet overnight.

Minutes active by hour, as a table

Minutes active by hour of day
	12 AM	1 AM	2 AM	3 AM	4 AM	5 AM	6 AM	7 AM	8 AM	9 AM	10 AM	11 AM	NOON	1 PM	2 PM	3 PM	4 PM	5 PM	6 PM	7 PM	8 PM	9 PM	10 PM	11 PM
Minutes active	0	0	0	0	0	11	152	194	171	179	148	118	88	99	65	78	33	34	37	54	33	2	0	0

Across the year

Present from late-April through July. First heard this year on May 2.

Dock records

First heard: May 9, 2026
Busiest day: 156 minutes on July 6, 2026
Earliest call: 5:51 a.m.
Days detected: 59 of 69 days monitored

Common questions

What time of day do you hear a Tufted Titmouse at Watts Bar Lake?

Most often heard in the morning, 8 to 11 a.m. Quiet overnight. These are the hours the dock microphones detect the Tufted Titmouse most often.

What time of year is the Tufted Titmouse at Watts Bar Lake?

Present from late-April through July. First heard this year on May 2. That window is when the Tufted Titmouse has been audible from the Watts Bar Lake dock.

Has the Tufted Titmouse been heard at Watts Bar Lake?

Yes. Active 1,496 minutes across 59 days since May 2026. Last heard today.

How these counts work

5 microphones listen from the dock, day and night. They only count birds from a fixed regional list of 226 species, so a bird that cannot occur here is never added by mistake. Every species has its own confidence bar, and that bar rises when the wind picks up and the audio gets noisy. A bird is not counted until it turns up again across several short listening windows that together cover at least ten minutes. Because the bar sits that high, when this page calls a bird rare, it really is rare.

All of the microphones sit at one spot, our dock, so these counts describe what is audible from that shoreline, not the whole lake. A bird that stays quiet here, or sings out of earshot, can be nearby and still never reach the numbers.

These records are generated automatically from the audio, and no person reviews them one by one. The software is not perfect and sometimes tags the wrong bird, most often on a faint or distant call. Read each as a bird the microphones detected, not a sighting someone checked by hand.

About the bird

The tufted titmouse is a small songbird native to eastern North America. The species belongs to the tit and chickadee family. The black-crested titmouse, found from central and southern Texas southward, was included as a subspecies but now is considered a separate species, Baeolophus atricristatus.

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