What's flowering as forage in your area

[Erichalfbee]

Lovely shot. Looks like horse chestnut to me

 

[Swarm]

And she's found it

 

[mbc]

Sycamore is well out but it’s raining for at least the next ten days.
Hawthorn on the cusp but it’s staying cold
Every spring I’m full of hope. Every spring the weather gives my bees a kicking. I’m running out of springs

Are you sure about the sycamore?
I'm a week ahead of you (ish) a few miles south yet my sycamore is still threatening to be out rather than actually being out.

 

[Swarm]

Similar here, loads of tassles on the ground after all this rain. A few days of sun is all they need.

 

[Erichalfbee]

Are you sure about the sycamore?
I'm a week ahead of you (ish) a few miles south yet my sycamore is still threatening to be out rather than actually being out.

Yes plenty out. The tree in the apiary was humming this morning

 

[Nannysbees]

Sun out at the moment can see bees on the sycamore and my clematis montana

 

[masterBK]

My garden bees are working the holly today

 

[holmbee]

Workers out this morning on field maple and crab apples. Heard first cuckoo this year. Then drowned out by thunder and heavy rain showers. Fields around are under water again. Thoughts of spring honey a distant dream.
Michael

 

[linoleum bonypart]

Doesnt matter if you have miles of osr if the wearhers not right.... Such a shame hives in great ahape too

 

[Erichalfbee]

I have severe Hawthorn envy. Driving into Cheshire on the 483 from Wrexham the road is lined with hawthorn for miles

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

I have severe Hawthorn envy. Driving into Cheshire on the 483 from Wrexham the road is lined with hawthorn for miles

Always is an impressive display up that way.

 

[Curly green finger's]

Whortle berry's flowering well on the hills.
Had a look at some of the Heather on my travels, one thing I love about beekeeping is checking on the forage like a mad plantsmen taking samples and photos.

 

[B+.]

I had a bit of a drive around this morning but found hardly any OSR. An estate that I keep bees on said they are growing about one-third the amount they would do usually. It's cereals as far as the eye can see around here :-(

 

[Curly green finger's]

I had a bit of a drive around this morning but found hardly any OSR. An estate that I keep bees on said they are growing about one-third the amount they would do usually. It's cereals as far as the eye can see around here :-(

Some of the osr round me got cut down just as it started flowering.

I noticed on Friday 6 feilds very near to the bees still green and only just opening pls don't cut this lot down..

 

[user 20297]

I had a bit of a drive around this morning but found hardly any OSR. An estate that I keep bees on said they are growing about one-third the amount they would do usually. It's cereals as far as the eye can see around here :-(

We've got a lot more of it than last year over aproximately 180 degrees of the southern outlook of my "beeyard" and at about one to two miles away. The bees are coming in looking like golden girls, covered top to toe in pollen, and the hive is giving off a not totally pleasant but very welcome scent of nectar.

 

[jeff33]

Hawthorn has finally started, almost 2 weeks late!

 

[Curly green finger's]

Hawthorn has finally started, almost 2 weeks late!

Blackthorn locally still flowering Blackthorn at 9am today

 

[Erichalfbee]

Hawthorn has finally started, almost 2 weeks late!

Yes late here. Next week is looking better

 

[The Poot]

Yes late here. Next week is looking better

Same here, if the forecasters have got it right.....

 

[Curly green finger's]

Yes late here. Next week is looking better

can't wait I'm going to have a bee party.