Mary Oppenheimer (Bend)

Mary Oppenheimer discovered birds in Costa Rica.  She’d gone there to see monkeys, but when a fellow traveler handed her binoculars she could actually see through, a new world opened up.  Walks along the C&O Canal in Maryland became a regular weekend event, and vacations usually involved birding trips.  In 2002, she retired from her tax lawyer life and moved to Bend --  in part because she and her late husband had enjoyed the local birding community when they visited relatives in Redmond.  Mary is a volunteer mediator with the Deschutes County Courts, a member of the Natural Mind Dharma Center, and a regular Wednesday Morning Birder.  Her last trip took her to the Everglades, the Keys, and the Dry Tortugas, where she spent an entire day sitting under scrubby trees, visited by ten species of extremely friendly warblers.

 Mary Oppenheimer (Bend)

Mary Oppenheimer discovered birds in Costa Rica.  She’d gone there to see monkeys, but when a fellow traveler handed her binoculars she could actually see through, a new world opened up.  Walks along the C&O Canal in Maryland became a regular weekend event, and vacations usually involved birding trips.  In 2002, she retired from her tax lawyer life and moved to Bend --  in part because she and her late husband had enjoyed the local birding community when they visited relatives in Redmond.  Mary is a volunteer mediator with the Deschutes County Courts, a member of the Natural Mind Dharma Center, and a regular Wednesday Morning Birder.  Her last trip took her to the Everglades, the Keys, and the Dry Tortugas, where she spent an entire day sitting under scrubby trees, visited by ten species of extremely friendly warblers.