[SBB] Continuing American Golden Plover

This morning, after it quit misting, several of us got good views of the AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER in the Coyote Creek Field Station Waterbird Pond. Peggy Don and I also took several photos (still haven't had a chance to review mine as my battery went dead while taking the photos so have to recharge it). The primary extension, beyond the tertials (a good four primary tips) and the end of the tail is impressive and the crossed primaries beyond the tail being reminiscent of that of Gulls. We also had a limping PECTORAL SANDPIPER (guess it's my year for gimps), SORA AND VIRGINIA RAILS. Three stops today at the well marked (X) TRKI site (thanks Dean) on Zanker Road failed to have the desired effect (i.e. no TRKI :-( Pat Kenny, Roland Kenner, Peggy Don and I then went to the pond at State & Spreckles Ave in Alviso where we had two STILT SANDPIPERS (a full basic plumaged bird and a juvenile with retained greater coverts and tertials as well as brightly marked yellow legs) and two basic plumaged Ruffs (one a blue-gray legged Reeve and the other a larger pale yellow-legged bird; most likely a male). At times the two STSA were sleeping within inches of each other and toward the end the juvenile STSA was feeding near the Reeve for some time.