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Made a tawny owl box a few years ago but it’s just been frequented by crows every year…

It was a long time ago. I had doves in it for a few days and then they decided they preferred the house window ledges….. Ingrates!

That’s absolutely lovely. Barn owl box next?

I’ve been reading about ‘homing’ them in…apparently you have to cover the whole thing in netting which goes down to the ground like a...

That’s very nice, better than my octagonal one. I hope the doves appreciate it.

Looks good ;) well done K ;)

That’s kind of you to say 🙏. Do you have doves in yours or is it just ornamental?

You could put up a bait hive. I imagine there are lots of swarms about where you are

If they were mine I would combine them, wait to see how the colony goes and be prepared to requeen with a mated queen

I’ve no invert unfortunately. Would 1:1 be ok? They’ve both just been double brooded and each of them has about 5 frames of foundation...

If feeding would it be fondant or 1:1 syrup at this time of year? I’m in the same boat with two of my colonies

I’ve four colonies. Two are doing great and were given an extra brood box about 10 days ago. The other two are struggling and each only...

It’s starting to come together. I underestimated just how complicated it would be to get the angles right on a hexagonal structure...

Quite a few dead foragers around the hive this morning…I guess they just returned exhausted and got chilled before making it back into...

You will know if they find it as you will have lots of bees with yellow “noses” in your hive. But as JBM says a mile is nothing.