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: WALK LIKE AN EGYPTIAN (GOOSE)
When we got our first German short-haired pointer, Coffee, I thought she would have a more journalistic relationship with birds than, say, a retriever....
WILD THINGS: A NEW SPECIES FOR THE FLORIDA KEYS
Damn I love the rivers that run through the Mud Keys. They are just the perfect distillation of the raw beauty of the backcountry,...
WILD THINGS: DESTRUCTIVE TO AMBITION
A tiny piece of plastic broke in our CR-V’s brake pedal, which meant the brake lights didn’t shut off when we parked it at...
ANDY THURBER: ARTISTS TEACH ARTISTS
Andy Thurber had an inauspicious start to his career as an artist.
“I got kicked out of Mary Immaculate (School) for drawing a mockingbird that...
WILD THINGS: IT’S A WIZARD. IT’S A BIRD. IT’S AN APP.
The Cloisters, we figured, were up there somewhere, though we weren’t totally sure where. Intermittently, as we walked, we could see part of a...
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HOME & GARDEN: AT-HOME TECHNOLOGY FOR EACH SIGN
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SUMMER SOLSTICE CELEBRATION HEATS UP AT MALLORY SQUARE
Key West’s annual Summer Solstice Celebration started June 8...
