Did you find an animal nesting near your house? Here's what to do

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4. We have a beehive in an old oak tree

Yesterday, it swarmed! This happens (almost) every spring. I saw hundreds of bees flying around an olive tree nearby the oak. Eventually they all gathered in a ball in the branches of the olive tree.

Fortunately, I have a neighbor who is also a bee keeper. I called her yesterday, but she didn't get the message until today. Fortunately, again, they had temporarily settled on the Olive and were now in a tight ball (keeping the queen warm). She was easily able to move the bees to a bee-box which she is going to leave here for a week (to make sure all the stragglers find their queen)

We are expecting rain tonight, and so I feel like the both of us saved those bees. They now have a nice new safe (and dry) place to wait out the rain.

Next week we expect a heat wave. Today is chilly, at around 55 degrees. A good time to move bees (they slow down when it is cold)

Interesting program I watch recently, 2 episodes: The Secrets of Bees. Very good watch, I learned things I didn't know. It was either on Apple, or Hulu (can't remember right now)