North Wales osprey pair face new setback after squatters occupy replacement nest
Conservationists are reluctant to evict greylag geese that have laid eggs in a replacement nest built for the ospreys
13:56, 15 MAY 2021
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The ospreys replacement nest has now been occupied by a breeding pair of greylag geese (Image: Brenig Osprey Project)
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North Wales Wildlife Trust were out at the popular tourist spot targeting all types of waste. Virginia got stuck in collecting discarded plastic and other refuse alongside the dedicated volunteers. Her involvement comes ahead of a beach clean Virginia is organising on 25th May as part of the Great Welsh Spring Clean event. “I love to get stuck in and help clean up our beautiful Anglesey so I didn’t hesitate to accept North Wales Wildlife’s kind invitation to take part,” she said. “Sadly, the amount of plastic cotton buds and amount of marine rope we found in a relatively small amount of time was terrible.
Mystery around unauthorised osprey nest after original hacked down by chainsaw
Rural police have asked the public not to interfere in the wake of outrage over felling of original site
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The ospreys stare at where their nest was before it was cruelly hacked down (Image: North Wales Wildlife Trust)
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media captionCCTV captured the moment a vandal took a chainsaw to the platform
Extra security measures may be brought in to protect ospreys after their nest site was cut down with a chainsaw.
Conservationists replaced a platform destroyed on Friday at Llyn Brenig, which borders Conwy and Denbighshire.
An existing platform was opened to the birds on Saturday but the original platform has now been replaced.
Staff at Brenig Osprey Project say they will establish what security measures can be put in place if the birds decide to use one of the platforms.
There are five pairs of ospreys in Wales and the birds and their eggs are protected under the Wildlife & Countryside Act which makes it an offence to interfere with them or their nest.
Police following ‘number of inquiries’ in hunt for osprey nest vandals
Ospreys are one of the most highly protected species of bird in the UK (Lewis Pate/WTML)
Police have said they are following up “a number of inquiries” as they hunt for vandals who took a chainsaw to the perch of two nesting ospreys in north Wales on Friday.
The nesting platform had been set up by conservation programme Brenig Osprey Project in partnership with the North Wales Wildlife Trust.
The platform was host to a breeding pair that had already laid their first egg.
1/2 Brenig Osprey Project partners woke up this morning to the worst possible news. Last night, at 21.42, someone took a chainsaw to the osprey nest and felled it – please, please be kind to staff this weekend as we work out how to respond to this horrific act of vandalism. pic.twitter.com/m2V52TWCyu