As the bees were starting to become active again I visited the bees that I’d attempted to protect from the worst of the Winter because the tree cavity they’d been living in had been chainsawed through when it was being cut back.
The first thing to do was to make the branch more manageable and return it to its original orientation, so I chainsawed a fair length off the “bottom” and lifted it onto that so it was upright.
The next step is probably to put a hive on top somehow and encourage them to move into that.