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        Special Topics 特別主題 >> Goodbye Penfold 告別彭福 >>  Penfold Park 2006 Spring
        
(Message started by: carmen on Apr 27^th, 2006, 8:51am)

Title: Penfold Park 2006 Spring
Post by carmen on Apr 27^th, 2006, 8:51am

27/4/2006 8.45am

Cattle Egret x 33
(first seen in this spring)

Title: Re: Penfold Park 2006 Spring
Post by KK Hui on Apr 27^th, 2006, 3:03pm

Is Penfold Park still open to the public? ???

Title: Re: Penfold Park 2006 Spring
Post by carmen on Apr 28^th, 2006, 8:52am

yes, we have checked with Penfold that it is still open to the public!

Title: Re: Penfold Park 2006 Spring
Post by David_Diskin on Apr 28^th, 2006, 9:02pm

Penfold Park was closed because of the Bird Flu. It reopened at the same time as Mai Po.

There are c.15 pairs of Great Egrets breeding in the egretry, plus a couple of pairs of Little Egrets and possibly a pair of Cattle Egrets.

Interestingly, when the egretry became established in the 1990s most of the breeding birds were Little Egrets with only 1-2 pairs of Great Egrets.

I visited the park yesterday (April 27) afternoon but the only migrant was a lucionensis Brown Shrike.

dave diskin