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Blooming flowering trees near the pond in Holmdel Park in New Jersey, USA in spring time. In 2006 and 2008,
I came to Holmdel Park in early April when the pink cherry blossom and yellow forsythia were in full bloom. The
photos of beautiful cherry blossom around the pond in Holmdel Park are on my Travelogue web page at:

http://www.shltrip.com/Spring_in-Holmdel_Park.html

This year (2009), I came to Holmdel Park in late April when cherry blossom and yellow forsythia had faded
away while many other kinds of flowering trees were blooming as shown on this new web page.

There are also many blooming beautiful flowering trees in the fenced-in David C. Shaw Arboretum near the
pond in Holmdel Park.

天高雲淡，魚鷹遨翔碧空，英姿威風無比。

While I was enjoying these beautiful flowers, a big fish hawk (osprey, 魚鷹) show up and was hovering over the
pond in Holmdel Park looking for fish to catch.

The hovering osprey was looking down into the pond searching for fish to catch as shown in these two photos.

The hovering osprey changed its hovering position over the pond several times in search for a fish

The osprey pulled in its wings and was continuing its dive from mid-air down into the pond.

After diving into the pond and catching a fish, the osprey took off from the pond and was carrying the fish in its
talons as shown in this photo.

A turtle was basking in the sun on the pond.

A Red-Winged Black bird

The location and direction to Holmdel Park are at the end of my Travelogue web page at:

http://www.shltrip.com/Spring_in-Holmdel_Park.html

Then the osprey found a fish and started to dive from mid-air with head down as shown on this photo (side
view of the osprey).

With the fish in its talons, the osprey was flapping its wings hard to gain height above the pond.

With the fish in its talons, the osprey was flying away from Holmdel Park to go back to its nest to feed its baby
ospreys. The spring season is a very busy season for the parent osprey to catch several fish every day to feed
its hungry and rapidly growing baby ospreys in the nest.

Two years ago in 2007, we were near an osprey nest near the visitor center of the Glacier National Park in
Montana, USA. At first, we saw only two young ospreys in the nest flapping their wings, jumping up and down
and chirping osprey sound rapidly. We were wondering why these two ospreys were so excited on the nest.
Then we saw the mother osprey flying in carrying a fish and landed on the nest. Then, we realised that the two
young ospreys high on the nest must have seen their mother flying in with a fish at a distance before we,
standing low on the ground, could see the mother osprey coming. The young ospreys were so excited because
good meal was coming as shown on my Travelogue web page at:

http://www.shltrip.com/Canadian_Rockies_4.html

Last year in April 2008, I saw a different kind of fishing bird, cormorant, swimming on the pond and catching fish
from the pond in Holmdel Park as shown on my Travelogue web page at:

http://www.shltrip.com/Spring_in-Holmdel_Park.html