Bee'd

On Tuesday afternoon I noticed a couple of honey bees hanging around in our front courtyard. I wasn't particularly worried, because (I thought) there's nothing there for them. Susan rang Bernard, who popped over that evening, took a look, and agreed that nothing much needed doing - or could be done. There was also 30 or 40 bees in the attic bathroom which were shooed out. As they were standing there a bee popped out of a drain hole in the bathroom floor - which they then blocked.

Bees thinking they've found somewhere.

Yesterday, as Susan was preparing lunch I realised I could hear a bee swarm. I wandered outside, and the air was thick with insects.

A decision has been made

Ten minutes later they had coalesced into the traditional mob of bees, and ten minutes after that they had settled in to the void beneath the attic bathroom floor.

There's nothing responsible we can do about it, so we're in wait and see territory. 

What larks!