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: 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...
WILD THINGS: A CATTLE EGRET IN THE LAND OF NO CATTLE
The sky was a giant blue bowl, inverted and empty. I couldn’t even find a turkey vulture. Where could they all possibly have gone?...
WILD THINGS: THE GREAT WHITE HERON — A QUESTIONABLE BIRD
The great white heron came in fast and loud, wings half folded, pushed by a tailwind, letting out a raspy dysphonic squawk right before...
WILD THINGS: THE SCOOP ON SCAUPS
Heavens to Murgatroyd, the light at Fort Zach was gorgeous, a blanket of chromatic bliss saturating everything that wasn’t in shadow. And the shadows...
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