Another off-season visit to the Island to check on the candy board success and feeding. Relatively warm in the 50s, sunny and finally no snow on the ground!
It looks like two of the hives have made it so far - one fairly busy in the mid April warm-up and the other showing some signs of life. I had cleaned out both empty hives in preparation for new nucs to arrive in May, and mice moved into both and made nests. I shooed them away and put in entrance reducers to keep them from returning.
I put out one more empty hive in preparation for any spring swarms so all five hives are in place - two currently occupied and three empty.
