I've made considerable progress on my apiary (bee yard) today. They are completely level and spaced good for working on them. We also planted 12 raspberry starts of 3 or 4 different varieties. Along with the shopping it was a productive day. I need to run to Isabees bee supplies and get a bottle of Honey-B-Healthy supplements and I'll have everything but the bees. 
How is everyone else doing?
Have a wonderful evening!
Barely warm enough for the bees to be out but they've found some pink and cream colored pollen somewhere show here in the video. I also saw some sorta bright red pollen too.
The video is half speed.
Put a feeder on my Center hive yesterday with 2:1 syrup. Less than 20 hours and more than a third appears to be gone. This was the high population hive that felt light. Consecutive rainy days forecast and not much to forage on.
The hazels have pollen today and it warmed up enough for the bees to find it.
Bees are bringing in dark yellow pollen today. No hazel pollen and the bees are done with the snowdrops so I'm not sure what they're finding. Tallest daffodil in the warmest spot here is only a few inches sprouted up. Maybe so other kind of early blooming tree around. Whatever it is the bees like it.
This is the "East hive" that has the old queen from the almost 2 years ago swarm. The upper deep box was still heavy so they have plenty of food. No moisture issues from this hive or the "West hive" and it had adequate weight also.
Checked the hives today to verify they had enough food. This is the 'Center hive' and the quilt box was very wet and had a little mold starting to grow in it. I took all the pine shavings out and wiped it down with some tea tree oil soap after I was done checking them. Lots of bees in this hive and I might have to feed it if the weather turns cool or rainy.
My center hive always has bees landing on me when I'm taking photos, which is only significant because it consistently was the one that I'd get stung by last year.
A warm sunny day and all 3 hives are active but I don't think there's much out here for them to forage on.
Some slow bees to enjoy at 25% speed.
This is the West hive today. I've seen each of the 3 hives busy now so I think they made it through the winter ok so I'll just have to see how much food they have left one of these days while it's sort of warm. Cooler and wet weather coming they say.
The East hive which hasn't shown much activity finally decided to do some flights when it warmed up some more and the wind calmed down this afternoon. This is the (likely) original queen I rescued after the split kicked her out or she tried to swarm and I put her in an empty box with one frame of bees. It was the smallest hive going into winter but they had almost two full deeps of food for the winter.
The center bee hive got really busy today for probably less than 30 minutes. It was 50F / 10C when they were flying but the wind was coming up.
Lots of bee poo being deposited on everything including me.
Bees out for a flight while it's sunny and 35F / 1.6C, February 1, 2025.
It's been lows down to 15F / -9C for a week or two and maybe a bit lower than that coming again next week. Not much snow this winter but mostly rain to make up the expected precip so not dry. More sun than usual too which is pretty much anything > 0 here in a valley full of water.
Bee real...
Sunny and 41F / 5C out before noon and all three hives had bees flying. I even saw a big drone fly back into one hive.
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Sun came out briefly after the forecasted less than .25in. / 6mm rain 
that measured .75in. / 19mm stopped and the bees were a little active but it was only 45F/7C out. Removed the last two feeders that have been empty for a while and flipped the quilt boxes so the screened vents are behind the lid.
