New for the year (at least for me) were rusty blackbirds and a brown creeper. Almost as good as seeing the creeper was discovering later that I had gotten a photo after all -- on the little camera monitor is just looked like more tree bark. Today's assortment of ducks included hooded mergansers, ruddys, lesser scaup, ringnecks, mallards and coots. I did not see the common merganser today. Virginia Photos here <https://picasaweb.google.com/106830005911633082070/MostRecent>