More birds, plus some bees

Birds: Yesterday Debby saw three wild turkeys out at the edge of the pasture.

Bees: Knoxville was recently rated the worst US city for allergies, there is just a ton of pollen in the area. Right now we have all sorts of things blooming, the air smells very sweet. We have some bushes that are blooming and sweet smelling and just full of loudly buzzing bumble bees.

Last night I picked up some beekeeping equipment from a local beekeeper, along with some local honey (mmm good!). We plan to have two bee hives this year. This beekeeper has about 80 hives in his bee yard. One of his hives swarmed yesterday and landed in a bush next to his shop. He placed an empty hive with a single deep chamber under the swarm and he shook the bush and the swarm fell down on the hive and went in. He was waiting until it was dark to move the hive. The beekeeper also showed me some of his apple trees and how he is grafting apple limbs onto crab apple root stock that he buys.