Extracting honey

The day started with heavy rain.

I'm extracting honey that I took off yesterday from the hives at Old Costessy.

In the afternoon went to finish getting the bees out of Kerry's chimney pot and into a hive. We had taken the chimney pot down from the roof three weeks ago but had not taken the comb out of the chimney pot itself. Although I didn't see the queen there was brood and eggs in some of the comb so hopefully she has survived this latest move and will eventually take to the frames in the brood box. I need to go and see them again on Saturday to check for queen cells. No queen cells will be sign that she has survived OK.