Sightings of Thousands of Scaup and Counting!

A raft of thousands of Greater & Lesser Scaup continues to rest and feed, and expand on the Navesink River, near the Oceanic Bridge between Rumson and Middletown Township. 

Over the weekend, the population of scaup was around a thousand. Now the population has swelled to 2 or perhaps even 3 thousand. The river waters are getting clogged not with ice, but with waterfowl , as numbers increase more and more.
It's a wonderful spectacle of color as thousands of winter scaup and dozens of other birds mix in including Reddy Ducks, Redheads, Red-breasted Mergansers, Bufflehead, Brant, Black Ducks, and Mute Swans.
It's a vast concentration of avian wildlife downstream from the largest urban coastline in America. How long this remarkable feathered display will last is anybody's guess. Enjoy it while you can.