Membership Meeting
Thursday August 20, 2026 7:00 p.m.
Garden Center, Tyrrell Park, Beaumont
Birding While in Thailand
Gina Rico
In addition to Bangkok, Gina and her husband Paul Hromadka visited Thailand for about 10 days in October last year, primarily to visit a daughter serving in the Peace Corps there, but managed to do some birding. In addition to Bangkok and the nearby coastal towns on the Gulf of Thailand, they visited Phuket on the Malay Peninsula and Isan Province in the north east of the country.
Gina and Paul moved into a very birdy subdivision in Tallahassee, Florida in 1990 and became hooked on birding, although initially their children occupied most of their time. They moved to Houston in 1997, and to Beaumont in 2021 after they became "empty nesters." Gina found Sabine Woods and expanded into bird photography. Since then, they have taken a "birding only" trip to Costa Rica.
Gina recently retired as a chemistry teacher at West Brook High School in Beaumont.
We plan to have the doors open at 6:00 p.m. The meeting will start at 7:00 p.m.