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I went to retrieve my ladder that got buried under my elevated deer house stand that blew over. Thank goodness without me in it! And when I got there I kicked up at least 20 deer. Tails going everywhere! Then I caught site a a really big Tom strutting across my field. I videoed some of him and tried to get a few pictures. Then after pulling my ladder out and stacking some of the salvaged wood, I rode up into the woods to check the couple cameras I have. I’m actually there now. And the woods were booming with gobbling for about 45 minutes I’m up here. It’s the first spring in many years I have heard this here. I may actually get the bug to try his Spring.

Have you considered a couple of strands of heavy-duty electric fencing around the bees? Might be good insurance. Maybe a solar unit if the hives are too far away from any electric source. All it takes is one visit, one night from one of those critters and the whole deal can be ruined.

I used to get excited when I began getting bear pictures on my trail cameras, because we never had them around here. Now, since I got into bee keeping last year, I’m happy when they do not show up on my cameras. Luckily, I have not had bear/bee issues so far, but, I know of people who have had bears rip their hives to pieces, and it is a costly, heart breaking situation. Bears will be bears, so I don’t blame them for doing what comes natural. I only hope they don’t stumble across my little apiary out back.

Managed to scrape up 50 sheds on the season. No dog here, just ALOT of miles on the boots...

I'm happy to see that you are still never wrong, and deal only in facts.