2012-01-04 The hills of St. Hellier - Albinas bees.

Up in the rolling hills of St. Hellier, Albinas bees had been building a small empire.

These are the bees that came from Katrinas' compost bin, 

http://bzzzzzzzzzz.blogspot.com/2011/11/2011-11-20-katrinas-swarm.html

Jazmina had taken them up there a little while earlier...

http://bzzzzzzzzzz.blogspot.com/2011/12/2011-12-16-from-compost-bin-to-country.html

That looks like a big rooster sitting outside the window.

Poor lonely thing has no harem since the fox visited.

 The setup.

A fairly shady spot, but well prepared.

That's the single box that arrived a couple of weeks ago, and the second box we were going to put on.

I'm hoping that Albina will look after these herself, I feel like my hands are full, just with all the bees we have in and around Melbourne. We'll  see.

 Smokin'....

 Lots of bees

 Plenty of brood for a young hive. All healthy looking.

Workers keeping the front door busy.

 After the second box was put on. A proud beekeeper.