Well that sent me rushing out to check my hives! All ok here but my grandsons trampoline blown away in Edinburgh so perhaps the winds have yet to reach us in the north.
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Well that sent me rushing out to check my hives! All ok here but my grandsons trampoline blown away in Edinburgh so perhaps the winds have yet to reach us in the north.
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Just been round my lot, too. All still intact. Had to let 'sooty' the sparrow out of the woodburner again. Keeps falling down the flue when the fire's not lit!
Our wood burner has hardly been out in the last month. However we had to rescue another Sooty during the summer. Had no idea what sort of bird it was and had quite a laugh when this black duck flew off.
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Sun out periodically, temp +10 and the lovely ladies are taking the opportunity to get out and about.
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I'm going to be going along to the apiary this evening to check all hives are standing up right (all hives have a ratchet strap on them but no bricks) and to see if the field is at risk of flooding. That could be fun in this weather in the dark.
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Yesterday it was 4c in the afternoon and all was quiet but today it hit 14c and they are bringing in stacks of ivy pollen.
Beekeeping in the dark, wind & rain! Fields adjacent to the Apiary site were flooded, but luckily ours was a bit mushy. Didn't stop me falling on my face, much to my own and Emse's amusement - but at least the ground was soft! All hives were raised as a just in case and at 11degrees a few of the wee bandits came out to check out what we were up to.
Relieved to say that the bee hives weren't sitting in a flooded field. The fields across from them have partially flooded, so just in case the water begins to get closer, we've sat them on some extra bricks to raise them just that bit more as the ground was waterlogged and I could feel myself sinking a bit when carrying the bricks.
Aided by the car headlights and HJBees head torch all went well. it was good to see just how sheltered from the wind the hives are, and of course any excuse to visit the apiary.....in the pitch black:rolleyes: all went well, quite entertaining and good to see one of my colonies was as enthusiastic as ever. As we were tilting the hive to put the extra bricks under, they began bubbling out..... Do bees sleep or are mine insomniacs? Will the colony always have guard bees that are awake & on duty (if that's it, then that colony has a lot of guard bees) :p
"Hey there Mr Blue, we're so pleased to be with you, look around see what you do......"
We had sunshine today;) pity I was at work though but at least the bees will have been able to enjoy it a bit. I'm just hoping its enough for the flood waters to subside a bit ready for the forecasted rain tomorrow to be accommodated before it reaches the apiary field.
Hey you with the pretty face,
Welcome to the human race
A celebration Mr. Blue Sky's
Up there waitin' and today
Is the day we've waited for
For anyone not on Ems' wavelength tonight, I bring you the clickable version ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98P-gu_vMRc
What a jolly ditty. The hairstyles are the kind of thing Jon would have had when he actually did have hair. Must have taken hours to fluff them up like that.
The sky and the view from the allotments up high on Dundee Law was indeed lovely today. There were two bumble bee queens flying too (just to get back more or less on topic).
Hope that you're all prepared for the two-brick gale coming your way.