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  • First beehive inspection of 2020

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    It’s warming up a bit and I needed to swap out hive boxes so I did a little beekeeping today and made a video –

  • Volcanic Lightning

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    My daughter is a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Guatemala. She caught these video clips of some volcanic lightning in August 2019. It’s cool stuff coming from the ground up!

  • Hummingbird tongue

    Hummingbird tongue

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    Justin Hill
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    I relax best when I’m watching something else work really hard. Here’s a hummingbird in slow-motion (25% of normal) from last night. You can see his long tongue flick out at the very beginning. Also, backyard bird sounds at 1/4 speed are freaky!

  • New bees

    New bees

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    Justin Hill
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    My hive didn’t do so well over the winter. The queen is still there but I only found a few hundred bees around her (normal hive is in the tens of thousands – healthy hive is 70,000). I moved them to a nuc (small 5-frame box) to see if they can turn things around —…

  • Vultures

    Vultures

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    Justin Hill
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    Vultures brought me a lot of enjoyment during the safari. They gathered in sinister-looking trees just like you’d expect and their heads bobbed up and down exactly like the Beatles-type vultures in Disney’s The Jungle Book. We first saw them trying to get in on the remains of a Cape buffalo taken down by lions.…