WILD THINGS: TRYING TO FOCUS ON THE RIGHT THINGS
In a certain way, owning a decent camera with a long lens has ruined birding for me. Or at least ruined things that previously would have suffused...
WILD THINGS: A CAVALCADE OF FALLOUT BEHIND THE BATHROOM BUILDING
And some days you find yourself, a middle-aged man with a ponytail, binoculars and a long-lensed camera, hanging out just behind the bathroom of a beachfront state...
WILD THINGS: MOCKERS IN THE ‘HOOD
The sound I heard out front could only be described as a terrific yowling. And it lasted for a minute or two, which is a long time...
WILD THINGS: DIGGING INTO THE MYSTERIES OF BURROWING OWLS
Time was, it was easy to find a burrowing owl in the Florida Keys. You would just go to Key Colony Beach (obeying the rabidly enforced 25...
WILD THINGS: A NOT-SO-PERFECT DAY FOR BANANAQUITS
I was meeting Kevin Christman to do some birding at the Key West Tropical Forest and Botanical Garden, which I always think of as just the Botanical...
WILD THINGS: MYSTERIES IN SARGASSUM
I spent most of the morning driving around the Lower Keys looking for ducks, because some days you just want to see a duck. I didn’t find...
WILD THINGS: OF OWLS & MARRIAGE
One of the central tenets of my wife’s and my marriage is, we don’t tell each other what to do. It’s not a rule so much as...
WILD THINGS: AN ODE TO ODES, THOUGH IT’S COMPLICATED
Sometimes it can feel as if you’re starting over again. For instance, I’ve never thought much about dragonflies, though I’ve always liked them and the hovering, near-linear...
KEYS WEEKLY’S OWN MARK HEDDEN SPEAKS AT BOTANICAL GARDEN ON MARCH 18
The Key West Botanical Garden Society presents Mark Hedden, writer, photographer and semi-professional bird watcher on Saturday, March 18 at 1 p.m. in the Toppino Nature Chapel...
WILD THINGS: NORTHERN PARULAS, FIRST OF THEIR NAME
I went out to the Key West Tropical Forest & Botanical Garden the other day with something of a mission – to write a column about the...
