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: Very loud, rare birds
Kids scream, and by kids I mean fledgling hawks trying to get their parents to feed them. And by scream I mean make a...
Wild Things: Trash pandas of the Florida Keys
It was a lovely boating day, a little windy, but not too choppy in Jewfish Basin because it never is. We pulled up next...
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...
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