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: A modest sportsball naming proposal 

I think my favorite sports team names come from weird places. Of most recent high visibility are the New York Knicks, an abridgment from...

Wild Things: Taking the long view

Whenever I take the ferry out to the Dry Tortugas, especially during the high heat of summer, I always worry, what am I going...

Wild Things: Getting Reacquainted in the Tortugas

You think you know a place, and then you don’t visit for eight or nine years, and things start to feel a little foreign.  I’m...

WILD THINGS: HARD HEADS & RED BELLIES

I was at Fort Zachary Taylor, hiding in the afternoon shade of the canopy, near the blacksmith’s shop, when I had a clear look...

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....

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