Mark Hedden

Mark Hedden is a photographer, writer, and semi-professional birdwatcher. He has lived in Key West for more than 25 years and may no longer be employable in the real world. He is also executive director of the Florida Keys Audubon Society.

WILD THINGS: STORMS & STONES, TURNED & UNTURNED

The sky was foreboding and maybe overdoing it – a two-tone wall of gray and darker gray moving closer and closer to where we...

WILD THINGS: CHEESE TOAST, CON LECHE & TRYING TO FIGURE IT OUT

There are basically two methods of birdwatching – you go out and move through a landscape and try to see what you can see,...

WILD THINGS: AVIAN SHOWER THOUGHTS

I was digging through some old, loose text docs on my laptop the other day when I found a page of notes from a...

WILD THINGS: THE DISCRETE CHARMS OF THE LITTLE BLUE HERON

You tend to take little blue herons for granted. Not that they aren’t beautiful birds – there are no ugly herons or egrets, except...

WILD THINGS: BUSHWHACKED BY EXUBERANCE

Giddiness can sneak up on you. When it does, it often makes me think of that James Taylor line, “Ain’t it just like a...

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