29 August 2014 Rankin Bottoms, Cocke Co., TN Lake level, 984.64 Scoping form shore I wasn't able to find the Ruddy Turnstone reported on Wednesday, but did see almost all of the other shorebird species recently reported, with the addition today of Buff-breasted Sandpiper. Numbers of some species have increased since my visit on Wednesday morning. American Golden-Plover (1, continuing bird) Semipalmated Plover (24) Killdeer (70) Spotted Sandpiper (2) Solitary Sandpiper (4) Greater Yellowlegs (4) Lesser Yellowlegs (33) Stilt Sandpiper (2) Sanderling (4) Least Sandpiper (50) BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER (2) Pectoral Sandpiper (32) Semipalmated Sandpiper (28) Western Sandpiper (5) Short-billed Dowitcher (8) also: Ring-billed Gull (56) Dutch Bottoms Ringed-billed Gull (25) Caspian Tern (2) Darrel Wilder Johnson City, TN