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: SOUTHERN SEADUCK REDUX

When I got there, Ellen Westbrook was standing on the South Roosevelt seawall with her binoculars up, staring out at the horizon, which was...

ARTIST JOHN MARTINI’S ‘PROCESS OF ACCUMULATION’

The sculptor John Martini works out of a large blue building on Emma Street. You’ve seen it — if not in real life, then as...

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...

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