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 BLACK-THROATED BLUE WARBLER

There is a bench up on the berm path at Fort Zach that I forget about on a regular basis. It’s a small thing,...

WILD THINGS: BIRD NAMES — A CRITICAL CONSIDERATION

The cadence of a songbird’s daily life, of its moment-to-moment motions, are generally faster than we can follow. The speed at which they hop...

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...

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