I birded Rankin Bottoms (Cocke County) today from about 4:30 to 6:30. Started slow but birds continued to arrive. Shorebird highlights. American Avocet - 1 Wilson's Phalarope - 1 Buff-breasted Sandpipers - 8 (feeding in a group about 10 yards from shoreline American Golden Plover - 1 Short-billed Dowitcher - 1 Solitary Sandpiper - 1 Greater Yellowlegs - 2 Lesser Yellowlegs - 13 Semipalmated Plover - 5 Pectoral Sandpiper - 15 All 3 peeps Caspian Tern - 5 Morton Massey Knoxville, TN