I've been unable to find a dry, or warm enough, day to do some winter management on my bees; anytime I've been free it seems it's been either too cold and windy or just too wet.
At long last the weather was warm enough for me to take a trip out to the apiary today. I've been fretting over the fact I have a queen excluder on top of a deep and under a couple of (heather honey) filled supers. I was concerned I'd been separating the queen from a food source. I wasn't so worried for right now, it is more a concern for the new year. If the queen can't reach the honey she and/or the bees might starve.
Anyway, it was warm enough, and even though I say so myself, I was a bit of a ninja beekeeper today; in and out before they noticed! However, I wasn't so quick that I didn't notice there were a lot of bees in the hive and some reasonably hefty boxes. So I'm quite happy at this stage that there's sufficient stores in the hive for the winter.
All the hives in the apiary looked busy so there's reason to be cheerful.
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