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A beautiful 2-1/2 foot garter snake lunged at me while filming it. (0.45) sec) It isn't very common that a garter snake will hold its ground against people in this way. The snake did not touch me when he struck.

A baby cardinal and two eggs. Mama is nearby keeping a close eye on me.

We captured a hive 2 days ago and got a new hive to put them in today.

As novices, our first experience with putting bees into the hive.

Bees are being introduced to their new hive. Bees were purchased from California and are being loaded into the new hive.

Two new hive boxes and this video shows a hive being introduced into one of them. 4-18-2021

A second swarm of bees has separated from one of the hives and has attached to the wild raspberry patch nearby. This time we have a catch box and are going to attempt to capture them.