It's raining cats and ducks!

Just a quick follow-up to the note below and the REV sighting. I realized at the time REVs are starting to come in typically in mid April in Maryland and I tried indeed to get visual confirmation of the bird. Unfortunately, the general area was not easily accessible and the bird seemed to sit high up. So it's certainly not a rock-solid record and I did not put into ebird. But given that the first REV appear now in Georgia this may have not been totally impossible and I was confident of the ID at the time. Moving up to Upstate New Yorks where signs of spring were visible also. Despite heavy rain all day Sunday, I finally managed to do some waterfowl birding at Montezuma in the afternoon. The diversity of ducks and geese I saw in just under an hour of productive birding was astounding and probably the result of a small fallout: 17 species of ducks and geese with highlights such as 1 Redhead, several Blue-winged teal, 2 Bufflehead, Ruddy Ducks, many Canvasbacks and several Common Mergansers. I am sure if I had had more time I could have turned up more species even. For the statisticians among you: We are at 47 species for the year and 120 patch ticks with Common Merganser, Blue-winged teal and Ruddy Duck being new additions for the site.