Spring in Holmdel Park in New Jersey
The weeping cherry trees around the pond in Holmdel Park in New Jersey are in full
bloom in Spring. Many people come here in Spring to enjoy the beautiful cherry
blossom.
A pair of mallards in the pond
A closer view of the colorful male mallard
One of several people fishing around the pond
A fishing bird, cormorant, is also busily swimming and diving in the pond to catch fish
Beautiful yellow forsythia is also in full bloom
The cormorant rose up to flap its wings
After emerging from a dive, the cormorant caught a big fish which appeared to be too
big for the cormorant to swallow
The cormorant was struggling with this big fish for about 10 to 15 minutes trying
various positions to swallow the big fish as shown in this series of action photos.
After about 15 minutes of struggling, either the big fish escaped or the cormorant
gave up
Then, the cormorant dived again and caught a smaller fish that it could swallow
A Guinea Hen in Longstreet Farm in Holmdel Park
Many children enjoy watching various farm animals in the Longstreet Farm in Holmdel
Park
I took these photos in Holmdel Park on two dates: some were taken on April 13, 2008
and some were taken on April 9, 2006.

The autumn foliage in Holmdel Park is also very beautiful and they are shown on my
Travelogue web page at:

http://www.shltrip.com/Autumn_Foliage.html
Flowering pear trees are also blooming in the spring along South Holland Road near
Holmdel Park
Location: Holmdel Park is at the intersection of Longstreet Road and Roberts Road in
Holmdel, New Jersey. The entrance gate is from Longstreet Road.

Direction to Holmdel Park:

From Garden State Parkway:

1.        Take Garden State Parkway (South) and take Exit # 114 for Holmdel
2.        At the end of Exit Ramp turn right into Red Hill Road (South) and go south for   
              about 0.4 miles
3.        At corner of traffic light, turn right into Crawfords Corner Road (northwest)
4.        Go northwest for about 1 mile, at second traffic light turn left into Longstreet    
             Road (south)
5.        Go south on Longstreet Road for about 0.5 mile, the entrance gate for             
            Holmdel Park in on right side

From Highway 34:

1.        Go south on Highway 34 into Holmdel
2.        In Holmdel, turn left into Roberts Road (northeast)
3.        Go northeast on Roberts Road for about 0.5 mile
4.        At intersection of Roberts Road and Longstreet Road, turn left into Longstreet  
               Road (north)
5.        In about 300 feet, the entrance gate of Holmdel Park in on left side
Cormorants are very skillful fishing birds to chase and to catch fish under water. In
China, Japan, and Macedonia, fishermen trained cormorants to catch many fish for
the fishermen. The following movie on the YouTube website at:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjjJTyt6U-Y&feature=related

provides excellent demonstration on how fishermen use their trained cormorants to
catch fish.

More photos and stories of such trained working cormorants catching fish for
fishermen can be seen at the following websites:

http://www.paulnoll.com/China/Tourism/Guilin-fishing.html

http://www.denniscox.com/guilin.htm

ttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cormorant