While there was no Lesser Sand Plover at the Game Range yesterday (08/29), there were a few other pretty decent birds out there. Here just a sample of what I saw:

Stilt Sandpiper (1 juvie at Game Range)
Pectoral Sandpiper (2 at Game Range, maybe more)
Baird's Sandpiper (3 at Game Range, 3 at Damon Pt)
King Eider (the long-staying female was floating near the pilings straight down from the restroom at Damon Pt; it had earlier been seen roosting on the rocks of the mini jetty a few hundred yards further towards Brown's Jetty, easily walkable from the Game Range)
Purple Martin (2 at Game Range)
Rhinoceros Auklet (1 off Damon Pt)
Pacific Golden-Plover (1 at Game Range)

The Golden-Plover turned out to be a Pacific. I had falsely claimed it to be an American and was probably very convincing about it. The best field mark is always counting the number of segments visible on the primaries, and that was mostly 2, maybe 3 in some angles. American would have had 4 or more segments showing. The field mark that I got hung up on, the projection of the tertials down to the tail, proved to be inconclusive on this bird. Personally, I had never seen the tail sticking out as far from the projected tertials as here on this bird before. While we seemed to have heard the bird calling, I'm not so sure that this wasn't somebody playing a tape.

Stefan Schlick
Hillsboro, OR