CKA TREASURER LINDA KIMBALL RETIRES, SAVES OSPREY EGGS WITH COLLEAGUES, TOO
2024 Marh 30
2024 Marh 30
Linda Boyd retired after volunteering as the Treasurer for Cedar Keys Audubon for seven years. The CKA Board members celebrated the event with a beachside pot luck dinner at Old Fenimore Mill. Linda was presented with a watercolor picture of an osprey to commemorate Linda’s love of this bird species.Linda and her husband, Boyd, have an active osprey nest in a tree in their yard. Because of Linda’s diligent observation of the osprey nest, she noticed the incubating female osprey had not moved in awhile. Linda sounded an alarm and the dead osprey and nonviable eggs were removed in time for another breeding osprey pair to begin their family in the same nest.
CKA Board President Janie Veltkamp and other CKA Board members are in the process of locating all active osprey nests on Cedar Key and it is apparent there is a shortage of adequate nesting sites for the birds. This is an excellent example of the nesting shortage.
The osprey picture was a perfect gift!
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