Rankin Bottoms, Cocke county, 8/26, 6-8:30, by canoe Douglas Lake elevation: 985.3, viewing from shore should be decent by next weekend Plenty of shorebirds, not much variety - 7 species. Last year on 8/27, 17 species were seen. We stayed after sunset near the heronry at the south end of the embayment to count incoming little blues. LIttle Blue Heron (36 juv.) Semipalmated Plover (16) Killdeer (400+) Spotted Sandpiper (5) Solitary Sandpiper Semipalmated Sandpiper (14) Least Sandpiper (150) Pectoral Sandpiper (15) Caspian Tern Michael Sledjeski & Leslie Gibbens Del Rio TN - Home of the Del Rio Song Contest http://www.delriosongcontest.com/