A sunny Winter day 65 degrees and all 4 hives are doing well.

Wow 65 degrees - and the bees are out

Ok I checked in on hive # 1 this was the weakest hive (in the pictures this hive is in two deep config on the right next to the little nuc.

All the sugar syrup almost gone (that applies to all 4 hives though). I am at this time pleasantly surprised. I can't tell you the amount of second guessing I was doing of my set ups. It appears to have worked though the bees are ramping up and I have a lot of them already. This hive I took off the feeder and inner cover and pulled a few frames.  The bees were hunkered down over the honey and almost ready start cramping up production of bees.

So all the bees were out flying around. I looked in the top deep for swarm cells and there weren't any nor was I expecting to see any. While you can't tell from this picture the bees were all flying around getting oriented and stretching their wings. A few days ago (see below) they were all snowed in. It's very promising and I may meet my commitments this year and share some bees with a few friends.

We are still in winter and next week we'll be back with the snow and then on to building out the hives. Not much as far as pollen yet but there is a bit and the fact that all four hives are active is great.

As you can see it was a good deep snow.
My other hives the entrance wasn't blocked but there was a snow build up there.

Spring will beeeeeeeeeeee busy.