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Title: Birding Penfold Park Post by Betty on Apr 19th, 2004, 10:23pm Here's my personal birding list of Penfold Park, Shatin from 9th Nov. 03 to 18th April, 04. May be helpful for those who want to visit this park. There's a conserved Egretry in the centre of the park, where you can see : Chinese Pond Heron Grey Heron Night Heron Great Egret Little Egret Cattle Egret Common Sandpiper Common Kingfisher White Breasted Kingfisher White Breasted Waterhen Some migrants, visitors & others : Fantail Snipe ( seen 18/4) Brown Shrike (18/4) Masked Bunting (male & female 15/4) Red Throated Pipit (18/4) Red Turtle Dove (18/4) Blacked-tailed Hawfinch (1/4) Crested Goshawk (4/4) Siberian Stonechat (male & female 18/4) House Swift (18/4) Barn Swallow (18/4) Blue Mapie (18/4) Eurasian Hoopoe Russet Sparrow ( usually there at 9:00 ) Collared Crow (18/4) Rose Ringed Parakeet (always there) Red billed Starling Grey Starling White Shouldered Starling ( a flock of 20+ 7/4) Daurian Redstart Richard's Pipit ( usually there) Olive-backed Pipit Rufous-backed Shrike Blackbird Blue Rock-Thrush And of course our common birds: White -backed Munia Spotted Munia White Wagtail Dusky Warbler Crested Bulbul Chin. Bulbul Black-eared Kite Tree Sparrow Crested Myna Black-necked Starling Spotted Dove Mapie Mapie Robin Japanese White Eye Black- faced Laughing Thrush Common Tailorbird Koel Opening Hours : 9:00 am to 30 min. before sunset except: Mon which are not public holidays. Days when there is horse race Days when there is a night race , will close at 4:00 p.m. (Often on Wed) Best time for birding here : 9:00 am. - 12:00 p.m. 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Don't go on Sun & holidays afternoon, too many people. But it is super quiet on weekdays with only a few residents. You will feel as if in a private garden watching Pipits, Starlings, Wagtails feeding freely on grassland. Egrets & Herons flying home to their pond. Tips on how to approach birds in such an open area of over 100,000 sq.ft of lawn : Do not go straight forward to your bird, instead take a route to go to their back, make use of the bushes & rocks there to hide. Then bush by bush, rock by rock , approach them. Or sit on a bench by the side of the pond. Soon Egrets will come down to drink and you may be lucky to see the beautiful Kingefisher fly over your head and land on a branch in front of you. As I am a new birder, may have missed a lot in my list. Hope I can complete a better annual record of Penfold by year end :) Betty |
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Title: Re: Birding Penfold Park Post by Merlin on Apr 20th, 2004, 5:47pm Very useful to me! I'll go there to explore. Thanks! :) |
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Title: Re: Birding Penfold Park Post by me_domchan on Apr 20th, 2004, 8:12pm on 04/19/04 at 22:23:43, Betty wrote:
Thanks a lot This sounds like maneuvering during a combat! :o |
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Title: Re: Birding Penfold Park Post by Betty on Apr 20th, 2004, 9:52pm Hi Merlin, Usually Sat is horse race day. :( You can check w/Penfold. Tel: 29666764 or 29666435 Hi me-domchan, "manoeuvring a combat" Yeah, Penfold Park is quite different . ;) Ah, is that I once met you in Tsim Bei Tsui on 22 Feb. ? You got your swallow in flight ? ;D Betty :) |
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Title: Re: Birding Penfold Park Post by me_domchan on Apr 20th, 2004, 9:58pm on 04/20/04 at 21:52:33, Betty wrote:
Hi Betty, I am afraid that is not me. I was in Mai Po Village on that day. ;D I am a newbie too :-X Looking forward to meeting you in the field someday as I just got my MP permit ;D |
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Title: Re: Birding Penfold Park Post by Betty on Apr 20th, 2004, 10:23pm Hi Merlin, I add the dates to certain birds that I recently saw. Betty |
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Title: Re: Birding Penfold Park Post by Owen on Apr 20th, 2004, 11:26pm Thanks.. this Sat is not a Racing day. I should try to take myself away from MPNR and explore somewhere new.. |
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Title: Re: Birding Penfold Park Post by Betty on Apr 21st, 2004, 3:02pm Some More Information :) Transportation : 1. ) KCR Fo Tan Station Exit C , a path between block 1 & block 2 of Jubliee Garden is a short cut to the park.abt 8 min walk. 2.) KCR Shatin Station by Taxi to Penfold abt HK$20+ 3.) drive yr own car, free public car park at the entrance. Betty |
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Title: Re: Birding Penfold Park Post by Betty on Apr 21st, 2004, 3:26pm Yes, opens this Sat but close this Sun. Today nothing new except 3 egret chicks in the Egretry. A no. of Swifts skim over the water in a pond near the bird cage. ::) |
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Title: Re: Birding Penfold Park Post by cywong on Apr 24th, 2004, 11:17pm Hi Betty, Thank you very much for sharing your birding experience. cywong |
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Title: Re: Birding Penfold Park Post by Betty on Apr 29th, 2004, 3:05pm a flock of 18 Grey Wagtails feeding on grassland , though a common bird but is the first of my record in Penfold since Nov. :D a group of 20 cattle egrets "marching" on the lawn. :) Betty |
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Title: Re: Birding Penfold Park Post by gjcarey on Apr 29th, 2004, 3:56pm Betty I think you'll find that the 'Grey Wagtails' were actually Yellow Wagtails. Grey Wagtails don't occur in flocks and it is rather late in the spring for so many. Also, there are many Yellow Wagtails of the subspecies simillima passing through just at the moment. Geoff |
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Title: Re: Birding Penfold Park Post by Betty on Apr 29th, 2004, 10:43pm Geoff, Thanks for correction & the information. I only saw Yellow Wagtail once so I better go Penfold tomorrow & see if there're still there. Betty |
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Title: Re: Birding Penfold Park Post by Betty on Apr 30th, 2004, 4:12pm I cannot find the Yellow Wagtails today. Cattle Egrets only 2 on the lawn. Betty |
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