The winter weather has finally broken and we have had some temperatures at the usual average levels around 50 or a little above. I took some pictures at the hives yesterday as the bees were active. Bees were flying and greeting me on the lane as I walked to get the mail and even were busing around me at the house 3/8 miles from the hive.
The north hive was very active at the bottom entrance with lots of bees in the air and on the bottom board trying to get in and out of the holes in the mouse guards.
The bottom entrance on the middle hive was also busy.
The bees were also using the top entrance to that hive.
The bottom entrance to the south hive was also very busy.
The top entrance on that hive was also jammed. Perhaps this hive was busiest because it got more of the sun on its south wall.
I started pruning my fruit trees this weekend and in the process of inspecting them for that purpose noticed lots of holes in straight lines on my older Enterprise Apple tree. From what I see on line, this damage was probably done by yellow bellied sapsuckers passing through on migration.
I took pictures from three sides of the trees and the holes seem to go all the way around.
I hope that this many holes doesn't girdle the tree and cause it to die. I could not tell this early in the season how healthy it was but I should soon be able to tell as Spring doesn't seem far off. We started daylight savings time today so I hope to do some work on pruning in the evenings.
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