Eagle

Council minutes for 24th April 1911 recorded that the Council had received a gift of an eagle for the Park from Captain Courtenay.[1] On the other hand a report in the Penarth Times of April 22nd 1911 stated that the previous week Mr. Alec Grant of Paget Terrace, Penarth had presented to the Council an eagle said to have been caught at Manila, and which would probably be housed in a suitable enclosure to be erected in Alexandra Park.

A letter to the Penarth Times published on May 20th 1911 expressed concern about the conditions in which the eagle was being kept in the Park which were described as a "low and dark" tool house.

In June 1911 the Council decided to offer the eagle to the Zoological Gardens at Bristol.[2] This gift was acknowledged in a letter from the Secretary of the Bristol Zoological Society read at the July meeting of the Council.[3]

Sources of information

  1. Annual Meeting of the Council 24th April 1911
  2. Meeting of the Council 12th June 1911
  3. Meeting of the Council 3rd July 1911