SWARM
To keep you up to date on the bee front, a lot has happened this week.
Last Monday I came home and my bees had swarmed. I'd planned to do an artificial swarm but they beat me to it and had decided to hang out in the holly tree.

With rookie beekeeper crew; Lin, Sarah & Leo we managed to get them into a nuc. Having never collected a swarm before it didn't go completely to plan but we finally got them to the allotment apiary site at 10pm that evening.

As you can see they seemed happy on Tuesday but by Thursday had decided to move out. Who knows where they are, though there has been a reported swarm in the Erdington area

CROCUS POLLEN.

It's been 10 months since my last posting.
I'm back!
In a nut shell.....got my bees.
This week the bees have been real busy, sun on the hive coming and going legs full of pollen. Tuesday morning they're on the crocuses in the front garden I made myself late for a job by getting distracted with my macro lens.

VOICE OF THE BEEHIVE

Hello Everyone.
Ming was very busy yesterday setting up her beehive. We are really looking forward to the bees arriving. Obviously with the fruit and veg this will be really good for our garden and we should have even more food than usual.
The chickens are very curious about the new structure and think it may be a new block of flats for them to live in.