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Tashlich Ceremony
The prophet Micha speaks of God casting the sins of Israel into the depth of the sea "Thou wilt cast all our sins into the depths of the sea" (cast - tashlich in Hebrew, Micha 7;19). On the basis of this verse the Tashlich ceremony arose, in which Jews go to a place where there is running water (the sea, a river or a well, to recite this and other scriptural verses and symbolically cast their families' sins into the depth of the water, in the first afternoon of Rosh Hashanah. There is no reference to the Tashlich rite in the Talmud. It is mentioned for the first time in the fourteenth century.

Other Customs
There is no sounding of the Shofar on Rosh Hashanah which happens to fall on Saturday.

It is a mitzvah to listen to the sounding of the horn as it is said in the book of Leviticus: "a sacred occasion commemorated with loud blasts" (29,1).

During each of the two days of Rosh Hashanah the blast of the shofar (ram's horn) is sounded 100 times, and according to the sepharadi custom - 101 times.