Let’s see your pictures of spring.

[Conor Wright]

A few pictures from around the garden this morning.

[Stubby]

My back garden is full of small wild bees at the moment . All going about their business    .

[gary112]

7 hours ago, AJStrees said:

Lots of gold finch about this morning. Lovely colours on em. 

One of my favourites,brighten up any garden

[nepia]

Had the pleasure of watching a goldcrest for about 20 seconds last Saturday.  No pics as I was in the cab waiting for electric gates to open.  In Oxted, Surrey.

[AJStrees]

7 hours ago, Conor Wright said:

A few pictures from around the garden this morning.

Looks like you got a good size garden by the looks of them photos. 

 

Honey bees? What hive have you got then?

 

[AJStrees]

4 hours ago, Stubby said:

My back garden is full of small wild bees at the moment . All going about their business    .

Okay so you say small wild bees? Are you talking bumble? Honey or a host of others?

 

These details are important to know. ?

[Conor Wright]

11 minutes ago, AJStrees said:

Looks like you got a good size garden by the looks of them photos. 

 

Honey bees? What hive have you got then?

 

Yeah, three and a half acres roughly. Less the veggies and yard but still a good 2 acres of garden slowly coming together.

Dark irish honeybees in national hives, double walled so warmer in winter and cooler in summer

[AJStrees]

4 minutes ago, Conor Wright said:

Yeah, three and a half acres roughly. Less the veggies and yard but still a good 2 acres of garden slowly coming together.

Dark irish honeybees in national hives, double walled so warmer in winter and cooler in summer

very nice. I managed to safely get a swarm of bees into a nuc and then a hive last May and they have been happily going about their business since then. A friend bought a second colony for me in a nuc, with the lockdown the farm are having a few issues with getting them out but expected by 17 April so I will be up and running with a second hive this summer. Have yet to get into taking any honey, might just leave them bee... ha ha, sorry bad joke. 

[AJStrees]

2 hours ago, gary112 said:

One of my favourites,brighten up any garden

Its been quite quiet round here on the Kestrel front, I am wondering if they are all mating at the moment. A fair few buzzards about though. Beautiful birds. 

[Conor Wright]

34 minutes ago, AJStrees said:

very nice. I managed to safely get a swarm of bees into a nuc and then a hive last May and they have been happily going about their business since then. A friend bought a second colony for me in a nuc, with the lockdown the farm are having a few issues with getting them out but expected by 17 April so I will be up and running with a second hive this summer. Have yet to get into taking any honey, might just leave them bee... ha ha, sorry bad joke. 

Nice. last year happened to "bee" a bad year..  one swarm led to losing a hive completely, another split hive failed to produce a queen,  partially down to my own mismanagement. I took no honey last year and hope to be able take a surplus this year without having to resort to feeding sugar syrup all winter.

Very relieved to see them out again and bringing in a decent amount. It's been a long winter for them.