H&H?

Hives and hawks? I'll let the pictures explain what was on my bee hive.

Danny

Update

Yesterday it was kind of snowing and getting cold so we put some bee cozies on my two hives. Later it started to really snow. Here's some pictures I took today.

Looking north/northeast


The snow on the old shop that was sliding off.


Russian olive tree.


Bee hive.


My two hives.



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Deer

A few days ago I was just getting out of bed to go eat breakfast when I looked out my window; to my surprise A cute little face was looking at me! I told the rest of the family to look out the window, unfortunately before I could get a picture Sam barked and they ran off. Later I was finishing up my breakfast and looked out the window; they were back! This time I got some pictures. Now for the pictures.

A picture of the fawn from downstairs.

The doe really enjoyed the lilac leaves, even when we tapped on the window it was hard to get her to get her head out of them!

Doe and the fawn.

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We're not the only ones who like watermelon

A few days ago we were taking down the electric fence around our garden. We had thrown out a few rotten watermelons previously and I noticed honey bees on them. After helping take down the fence I got the camera and took some pictures. Here they are.

One of the watermelons.

A few of the honeybees.

Bees drinking up the juice.

Mmm, yummy.

A couple more bees.

A chunk of watermelon with the bees on it.

More bees.

And... This is as close as I got to this watermelon with the wasps around.

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Bees

I haven't posted on here for a long time so I took some pictures of my bees. Here they are.







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Watermelon

Wow! Look at that whopper!(The watermelon)






Well, that might be a slight exaggeration of the real thing.

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I haven't posted for a long time so I'm going to post a picture from awhile ago when we did corn. Here it is.



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Bees on corn

When you read the title "Bees on corn" I don't mean a few bees. I mean hundreds and hundred of bees on the tassels of the corn, they're mainly on one row of the corn and hundreds of them! They have quite a bit of pollen on them. Every tassel has the average of two to three bees on it! I thought it was pretty neat but I didn't get any pictures.

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Happy inspection

We inspected my bees today and I was really happy to see how well they were doing. The queen had a pretty good brood pattern and it looks like I'm going to be able to add honey supers to one hive.

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Blue birds and kittens

We have had a lot of blue birds around and they're really tame so I took some pictures of them. We also have four kittens.

A blue bird looking at a bug it had brought to the deck.

A few blue birds.

Another picture of a blue bird.

The blue bird preening.

Inquisitive kitty.

The kitten doesn't like the camera flash.

A kitten scratching itself.

Part of the "gang."


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We inspected my bees awhile ago, we are quite sure the two hives have a queen, the third hive I had a little "Oops" on. When I put the swarm into their hive I only had five frames so I figured I would have the feeder on the far side of the hive with the frames around it, figuring that they'd draw it out near the feeder first, well it was quite the opposite...

As you can probably tell this is the "Oops." It is kind of neat looking at natural comb. We cut the large section out and put it in a frame.

Inspecting a frame.

As you can see in this action picture, Sam is ready to take on the world!

If he can get his engine running.

Danny

Update

We've been haying quite a bit lately and earlier today I was raking hay. I haven't inspected my hives yet because I'm giving them time to get a new queen mated. I'll inspect them soon though. Our garden is doing wonderful. I think every pea seed we planted came up! And we planted four big rows of peas, we didn't know they would come up this good! Our Raspberries are also doing very well.

Danny

Long time no post

I haven't posted much for quite a while. My hives swarmed and then I found that they had ran out of room, next year I won't make that mistake. I added another hive body to both of them and then in another week checked again, there were around seven swarm cells in one hive and nine in the other, both hives were thriving even though they swarmed. When the queens hatch the queen that survives the fight will take the place of the queen that swarmed. My beekeeping friend that is kind of my mentor told me to leave them alone for a week or two. It'll be hard to stay out of them that long but I'll manage hopefully.

Danny

Business cards

A few days ago D.J. helped me print out some business cards for my swarm and hive removal. Here's a picture of it

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Ranch rodeo

Yesterday we went to a ranch rodeo, it was okay and I got some pictures of people getting bucked off the broncs. Here's a few pictures.

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Inspection

On Tuesday we inspected my hives, my brother didn't get many photos but both hives were thriving. Here's a picture of a newly drawn foundation.

This picture was taken by D.J.

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Bee pictures

Here's a few pictures of my bees I took.

A bee crawling into the entrance.

A picture of part of the entrance on hive two.

A picture of hive two.

A picture of hive one.

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Inspection

Yesterday we inspected my hives. They were doing quite well. One hive is quite a bit more aggressive than the other but they're both very fun to look at. Here's the pictures. The reason there are no pictures of the second hive is because it chased the cameraman all over the backyard last time we inspected.

Opening up the hive

A frame of foundation that the bees are drawing out.

Me holding up a frame of freshly drawn foundation.

Again, all pictures were taken by D.J.

Danny