Kevin Burke and I went out to Rankin late Wednesday morning to look for the Pelicans, Avocet, and Ibis. Two out of three ain't bad!! We missed the Ibis. Weird, NO Killdeer and only one other unidentifiable shorebird other than one Spotted Sandpiper. Here's the list Rankin Bottoms, Cocke, US-TN Oct 3, 2012 11:00 AM - 12:45 PM Protocol: Traveling 2.0 mile(s) 30 species Canada Goose 5 Mallard 1 Blue-winged Teal 114 Two separate flocks, one sitting on the water, one flying over the embayment Double-crested Cormorant 47 American White Pelican 3 Three adults perched in the shallows of the embayment, then flew down river Great Blue Heron 17 Great Egret 35 Lots of these birds around the area, very common Black-crowned Night-Heron 1 Black Vulture 13 Turkey Vulture 2 Osprey 1 American Coot 1 American Avocet 1 One individual in the embayment, easily observed and identifiable Spotted Sandpiper 1 Belted Kingfisher 3 Red-headed Woodpecker 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker 1 Downy Woodpecker 4 Northern Flicker 5 Eastern Phoebe 1 Blue Jay 17 American Crow 162 Carolina Chickadee 7 Carolina Wren 8 Eastern Bluebird 2 Northern Mockingbird 3 Magnolia Warbler 2 Palm Warbler 5 Song Sparrow 1 Northern Cardinal 4 This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org) Keith Watson Pittman Center, TN