Rankin Bottoms, Cocke county, 9/23, 6-7:30 pm, by canoe Lake elevation: 984.1 ft; viewing from shore will keep improving through the week Don Miller reported 7 Buff-breasted Sandpipers here in the A.M. When we arrived, Darrell Wilder commented that he hadn't seen any, nor did we later on. We did see Least Sandpipers and Caspian Terns (which weren't on Don's list), plus all the other shorebirds & waterfowl species that he listed. Forty more Blue-winged Teal flew in at sunset; Pelican still present. Michael Sledjeski & Leslie Gibbens Del RioTN