HOPES that ospreys might breed in Lancashire this summer have taken a jolt.
Since earlier in the month, an adult bird had been prospecting potential nesting sites at Brockholes near Preston.
But it it is thought that this was the one reported to have been killed in a freak accident on Thursday evening of last week.
According to Matthew Calderbank, writing in the Lancaster Post, the osprey was perched on a bridge over the River Ribble, when it became 'spooked' by a cyclist wheeling his machine along the hard shoulder of the M6 motorway near Brockholes.
Sadly, it flew into the path of an oncoming HGV truck and perished from multiple injuries.
It had been hoped that the osprey would attract a mate and the pair nest at Brockholes nature reserve.
The Lancashire Wildlife Trust reckons that the chances of such a breeding this year are now remote.
Ospreys are not thought to have bred in the county since the mid-18th Century. so the wait must go on.
It is not known if the corpse of the osprey was retrieved.
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