Non-astronomical Interests

Mary Kormendy

Our former home near Dripping Springs, TX (We moved to downtown Austin in May 2022.)

We got interested in birds during a trip to Australia in 1996.

Our bird pictures from around the world follow standard ecozones approximately but not exactly:

Birds from the USA and Canada:   our house,   Hornsby Bend and greater Austin,   Texas,   California,   Hawaii,   Canada,

Neotropic birds from Central America and the Caribbean:   Honduras,   Costa Rica,   Panama,   Trinidad and Tobago

Neotropic birds from South America:   Ecuador,   Ecuador 2017,   Brazil.

Western palearctic birds:   Europe: Germany, Finland, Norway,   Europe: United Kingdom,   Europe: Spain,   the Canary Islands,   Europe: Lesbos, Greece,   Israel

Eastern palearctic birds:   China

Birds from Africa:   The Gambia,   South Africa

Indo-Malayan birds from   India: North-west (Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand)   India: North-east (Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya)   India: Central (Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh)

Birds from   Australia,   New Zealand.

For our 2014 December trip to India, see this travelog.

For our 2016 May-June trip to India, see this travelog.

For our 2017 April trip to High Island, Texas, see this web site.

For our 2018 March trip to India, see this travelog.

For our 2018 May trip to China, see this travelog.

For our 2018 October trip from Munich to Budapest, Hungary see this travelog.

For our 2018 November trip to China, see this travelog.

For our 2019 April trip to High Island, Texas, see this web site.

For our 2019 July trip to China, see this travelog.

For our 2021 April trip to High Island, Texas, see this web site.

For the 2021 August 3 & 4 migration of Purple martins through Austin, see this web site.

For our 2021 December trip to Ecuador, see this web site.

For our 2022 January-February trip to Peru, see this web site.

For our 2022 July-August trip to Australia and Papua New Guinea, see this web site.

For our 2022 September trip to Bolivia, see this web site.

For our 2022 November-December pre-trip to Argentina (before our Antarctic cruise), see this web site.

For our 2022 November-December cruise to Antarctica, see this web site.

For our 2023 January birding in Chile, see this web site.

For our 2023 January-March cruise from Chile to Antarctica and around South America to Miami, FL, see this web site.

For our 2023 March-April birding in south Florida (after the Seabourn cruise), see this web site.

For our 2023 November-December birding to Sri Lanka, the Andaman Islands, and South India, see this web site.

For John's 2024 February-March birding in Colombia, see this web site.

For our 2024 May-June cruise from Iceland to Jan Mayen Island to and around the Svalbard Archipelago, see this web site.

For our 2024 June 25-30 stay in Paris, see this web site.

Scuba diving: This is near Grand Piton, Saint Lucia (depth about 70 feet); Mary and John.

Travel and photography: This was part of Sete Quedas, Rio Parana, Brazil, before it was flooded by the Itaipu Dam reservoir. Other destinations

Opera: The New York Metropolitan Opera's Don Carlo is the best performance that we have seen.

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Last updated: December 27, 2022 (2022 Argentina pre-trip and 2022 Antarctica cruise added)

Last updated: January 15, 2023 (2023 Chile birding and 2023 Seabourn cruise web sites started)

Last updated: April 12, 2023 (2023 Seabourn cruise web site finished)

Last updated: April 12, 2023 (2023 Florida birding web site added)

Last updated: March 30, 2024 (2024 Colombia birding trip added)

Last updated: May 9, 2024 (2023 India and Sri Lanka birding trip added)

Last updated: August 2, 2024 (2024 cruise to Iceland and Svalbard and 2024 stay in Paris, France added)