Llyn Brenig ospreys look at where nest should be after being destroyed

On Friday night, a chainsaw was taken to the osprey's nesting platform at the reservoir on the Conwy and Denbighshire border. 

The nesting pair of the rare and highly protected birds of prey had just laid their first egg on the same day.

Police, the North Wales Wildlife Trust and renowned naturalists expressed their disgust at the incident, as well as hundreds of members of the public. 

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• Watch: Horrific moment Llyn Brenig osprey nest is felled by chainsaw

And on Sunday, the North Wales Wildlife Trust released a photograph of the two ospreys seen perched above their former nesting site on Sunday morning - looking down on it.

So sad....we are working very hard with a number of lines of enquiry to try and catch the offender(s) https://t.co/hXMfKVVuWX

— NWP Rural Crime Team /Tîm Troseddau Cefn Gwlad HGC (@NWPRuralCrime) May 2, 2021

North Wales Police's Rural Crime team believes the felling of the nest was by someone with motive - not wanting the ospreys at that particular site, rather than a sensless act of vandalism. 

Anyone with information about this incident is urged to contact police on 101 quoting reference number 2059734.