Hive Igloos- October 14 2019

00:00 - so I'm out just checking be yards this 00:02 - afternoon just to check up on my babies 00:04 - to see how they're doing this is one of 00:06 - my more exposed yards I've I was unable 00:10 - to get this yard out because well the 00:12 - rains came three weeks ago and as I'm 00:15 - unable to access this yard so I couldn't 00:18 - move them out as you can see they're 00:21 - quite exposed except for this little 00:25 - bluff of trees here which kind of caught 00:29 - a bit of snow which helped a lot of the 00:32 - yard is buried which would have 00:34 - protected these colonies the clusters 00:36 - from that brutal wind that came with 00:39 - that snowstorm some of the colonies over 00:41 - there 00:42 - not so much what in the wide open and my 00:45 - entrances weren't reduced enough so I 00:49 - was a little concerned about the wind 00:51 - blowing on the clusters there but by the 00:53 - looks of it the hives had nicely iced 00:55 - over so I I'm thinking the ice probably 00:59 - protect the clusters from that wind 01:04 - starting to melt now I won't take long 01:06 - to melt the snow they're talking 12s 01:09 - like as far as I would as I can see so 01:12 - the snow is gonna disappear hopefully 01:15 - the water run away and you know get rid 01:19 - of this white stuff I don't expect the 01:22 - land to firm up any we're getting kind 01:24 - of late in the season for that but if 01:26 - anything if we can get rid of this snow 01:28 - and then maybe that frost will come in 01:30 - as November approaches that's about our 01:34 - only hope so if we get a little bit of 01:36 - frost set in I'll be able to walk into 01:37 - these yards and pick them up quite easy 01:40 - and it's just just hope that the next 01:43 - snowfall stays away until we're able to 01:46 - get more of our work done here 01:56 - nice and cozy down there nicely melted 02:09 - caverns so these guys would have been 02:11 - protected from the wind not a problem 02:14 - both that caverns these guys that were 02:23 - more exposed you can see I didn't have 02:25 - the entrance is reduced can I got caught 02:28 - off guard there a bit so the wind would 02:33 - have come in from that direction right 02:36 - across the yard like that so these guys 02:41 - their entrances wide open those clusters 02:55 - are right there 02:58 - that affected no bees and dead bees or 03:01 - nothing 03:05 - so this is what I'm assuming happened 03:08 - the hives probably got iced over just 03:11 - like this and I would have protected the 03:14 - clusters from that wind now that's 03:17 - melting away 03:28 - you can hear them just humming inside 03:35 - sounding quite content it's like little 03:52 - caves 04:09 - look these guys up 04:26 - feels about done 04:49 - great big boxes of these so that's good 04:55 - that's I'll just quit fretting about 04:57 - this yard these colonies obviously 05:00 - didn't see any different with that 05:02 - brutal wind that hit them obviously they 05:05 - must iced over the clusters showing no 05:09 - signs of stress I mean they're hanging 05:10 - right to the front entrance so it's not 05:12 - like the wind pushed them back at all so 05:15 - I'll just let this snow melt and 05:18 - hopefully the frost sets in and then I 05:21 - can get these guys out I just wandered 05:26 - into another yard found just a little 05:28 - bit of trouble last one pail this wasn't 05:41 - because of the wind guys you're just 05:45 - flying down there because of cattle 06:00 - scratching so this colony has been 06:08 - exfoli exposed through all this weather 06:13 - let's take a peek inside 06:25 - and you wouldn't know any different 06:29 - nicely clustered so I'm gonna put these 06:35 - guys back together and weight them down 06:39 - with this full tail of syrup maybe when 06:45 - it warms up they'll go come up in access 06:47 - so this will need another top so so 06:55 - there's no bother it's like little hive 07:10 - igloos