Rankin Bottoms, Cocke county, 8/21/14, by canoe, Lake elevation: 986.4 ft Migrants (complete list, with summer residents: http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S19537874): Mallard (260 - unusually high number) Semipalmated Plover (2) Spotted Sandpiper (9) Solitary Sandpiper (7) Greater Yellowlegs (1) Lesser Yellowlegs (14) Stilt Sandpiper (3) Least Sandpiper (55) Pectoral Sandpiper (28) Semipalmated Sandpiper (5) Short-billed Dowitcher (1 - flat back, pale flanks) Ring-billed Gull (20- first of the winter population) Caspian Tern (4) Common Nighthawk (12) Michael Sledjeski & Leslie Gibbens Del Rio TN