A little sensor has been listening around the clock since February. Of the tens of thousands of songs and calls it has identified, more than two out of every three came from just these two backyard superstars.
Some neighbors are here every single month. Others drop in only for the winter, breeze through for the summer, or simply drift over from the wetlands. Here's how the whole cast breaks down.
Sort every detection by the hour it happened and a beautiful rhythm appears. The yard wakes up in a rush around 6 a.m., sings its heart out through the morning, and quiets down by dusk.
Because the sensor never stops listening, it captures the neighborhood's changing of the guard. Watch the winter crowd bow out through spring while a fresh set of summer voices arrives — each bar below is one species' entire run at West Court.
West Court sits right beside the Shoreline wetlands, and it shows. A backyard microphone with no water in sight keeps catching gulls, geese, ducks, a night-heron — even a Black-bellied Plover, a bay mudflat shorebird calling as it passed overhead. These are our fly-over neighbors.
Ten species turned up a single time in six months and never again — a goose overhead, a tanager passing through, a woodpecker cackling once from a far tree. Blink and you'd have missed them.
Every square is one day; the darker it is, the more the birds had to say. Below, watch the neighborhood "life list" climb as each new species is heard for the very first time.
All 57 species, with a photo and a little about each one. Filter by role, search by name, or sort by who's been heard the most. Tap any bird to learn more.