A few warm days and the bees at home are flying far more. I’ve seen a few visiting celandines, but I’ve no idea where most of them are going at the moment. I’d not be surprised if they’ve found willow trees providing a good source of pollen, but our damson tree and may of the blackthorns are already in flower. Seems crazy to me, but I guess humans only have themselves to blame.
It’s been making an early inspection of the colonies very tempting, but it looks as though night-time temperatures are due to drop, possibly close to freezing, this weekend, and in the day it’s forecast to drop from the mid-teens (°C) of the last few days back into single figures, so I shall hang fire for the moment. I might be tempted to have a peek through the top of those hives with clear crownboards, but I don’t be cracking them open this week.