Rankin Bottoms & Ten Islands, Cocke county, 9/24/11, 5-8 PM, from Tipple Rd. & by canoe Lake elevation: 977 ft. Beautiful evening on the lake, shorebirds feeding enthusiastically Partial list: Blue-winged teal (20) Green-wined teal (28 - FOS) Pied-billed grebe (3) Black-bellied plover (3) Semipalmated plover (14) Greater yellowlegs (8) Lesser yellowlegs (3) Spotted sandpiper Sanderling (4) Semi. sandpiper (2) Least sandpiper (ca. 40) Pectoral sandpiper (36) Stilt sandpiper (6) Buff-breasted sandpiper Caspian tern, calling from land and air Michael Sledjeski & Leslie Gibbens Del Rio TN - Home of the Del Rio Song Contest http://www.delriosongcontest.com/