Earliest riser
Eastern Screech-Owl
First heard at 2:53 AM.
Birds at the dock
August 14, 2026: 26 species identified by BirdNET listening to the dock microphone. Ruby-throated Hummingbird was the most active with 4h 10m active; Eastern Kingbird traveled farthest, a 8,200 mi round trip.
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
Blue Jay
Still calling at 4:51 PM.
Busiest minute
5 species at once
At 7:56 AM: Belted Kingfisher, Carolina Chickadee, Osprey, Red-headed Woodpecker, Tufted Titmouse.
Travel
Frequent-flyer miles
8,217 mi
Combined round-trip migration of 1 species heard today.
Farthest traveler
Eastern Kingbird
Makes a round trip of about 8,217 mi each year.
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 76 days running.
Duet partners
Osprey and Purple Martin
Calling in the same minute 76% of the time this week.
Rising star
Red-headed Woodpecker
Up 1h 50m 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
76 days
Carolina Wren, ending 2026-08-14.
Species heard
4h 10m active
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
1h 43m active
Carolina Wren
60 minutes active
American Crow
55 minutes active
Northern Cardinal
43 minutes active
Tufted Titmouse
40 minutes active
Red-headed Woodpecker
32 minutes active
Blue Jay
27 minutes active
Osprey
16 minutes active
Mourning Dove
14 minutes active
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
11 minutes active
Eastern Bluebird
9 minutes active
Pileated Woodpecker
8 minutes active
American Goldfinch
8 minutes active
Cedar Waxwing
6 minutes active
Belted Kingfisher
5 minutes active
Carolina Chickadee
5 minutes active
House Finch
4 minutes active
Eastern Screech-Owl
4 minutes active
Black-crowned Night Heron
3 minutes active
Downy Woodpecker
3 minutes active
Chimney Swift
3 minutes active
Red-bellied Woodpecker
2 minutes active
Great Blue Heron
2 minutes active
White-breasted Nuthatch
2 minutes active
Northern Mockingbird
2 minutes active · 8,200 mi round trip
Eastern Kingbird
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.