A few photos from the Rankin Bottoms trip posted at the site below. Hope to get back out there again before the shorebird migration is over. One of the sharpest looking birds out there was the Western Sandpiper, but I didn't manage to get a decent shot of it. http://www.flickr.com/photos/dkirschke/ --- On Wed, 9/19/12, Richard Knight <rknight8@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: From: Richard Knight <rknight8@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: [TN-Bird] Rankin Bottoms To: "bristol-birds" <bristol-birds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "tn-bird" <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wednesday, September 19, 2012, 9:42 PM Rankin Bottoms & Dutch Bottoms on Upper Douglas Lake Cocke Co., TN with Michael Sledjeski & David Kirschke in motorized canoes Blue-wg. Teal - 60 Green-wg. Teal - 1 Pied-billed Grebe - 1 Eared Grebe - 1 D-c Cormorant - 300+ Great Egret - 180+ Black-cr. Night-Heron - 20+ Am. Coot - 1 Semipalmated Plover - 14 Am. Avocet - 1 Lsr. Yellowlegs - 7 Semipalmated Sandpiper - 20+ Western Sandpiper - 1 Least Sandpiper - 50+ White-rumped Sandpiper - 1 Baird's Sandpiper - 3 Pectoral Sandpiper - 7 Dunlin - 1 Stilt Sandpiper - 1 Laughing Gull - 1 Ring-billed Gull - 155 Caspian Tern - 1 Com. Tern - 3 Rick Knight Johnson City, TN