The weather's been a real mixed bag today. At one point I was sweating in the Sun shovelling compost and then the next running for cover from the rain, but when it was dry all the hives in my home apiary were active. Some pollen coming in, though not a huge amount. I suspect some was snowdrops though I'd have said it was perhaps more yellow than I'd expect; some was a grubby white and I've no idea what that might be at this time of year. There is some hazel twenty yards or so from the hives, but the catkins were pretty much brown and dried out already and I think it would be the wrong colour anyhow. It was a bit chaotic if I'm honest -- more than a few bees failing to hit the landing board at all, having to "go around" and try again, and others coming in clearly a bit heavy, crashing onto the board and rolling up it to the entrance.
Then later on after we'd had some drizzle I was out in the veggie plot contemplating what needs doing and I heard one of the girls flying behind me. I looked around and she'd found a little clump of grass with tiny droplets of water resting on the leaves to collect from.
James
