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: WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT PAINTED BUNTINGS

The name bunting comes from a Scottish word that basically means plump. That seems judgmental. If they are plump, they are pleasingly plump, and...

Common grackles — victims of their own success

I’d say I can’t tell you the last time I saw a common grackle, but that wouldn’t be true. I saw one last Saturday...

KEY WEST ARTIST DISCOVERED PARTS OF HERSELF IN HER NEW WORK

Some time after Hurricane Irma in 2017, artist Sally Binard found herself sitting on the floor of her new place, chisel in hand, staring...

WILD THINGS: THE SUBTLE GENIUS OF SWALLOW-TAILED KITES

The kite shot out from nowhere, just above the road, doing something of a bootlegger turn, its face angled one way, its body sliding another....

WILD THINGS: THE ART OF BLENDING IN

The wind made it difficult to think. Tilt your head the wrong way and your hat would fly off and tumbleweed down the beach....

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