Early Forage

Over the past couple of weeks there has been some milder sunny weather enabling the bees to get out and stretch their wings. At the weekend we watched with interest as the bees obviously began to bring little packages of pollen to the hive!


 There was pale yellow and a greenish colour which I think must be from the hazel catkins in the garden.We have tried to plant up the garden to be bee friendly and there are clumps of snowdrops in flower ready to release their nectar and pollen, hazel with catkins full of pollen as well as Viburnum Bodantense and Sarcococca Confusa to hopefully attract the bees for an early feed. Trev managed to capture this bee on the Viburnum on Wednesday.