Honey Harvest and Bucks

This week we took honey off of our hives.  We did all the extraction in a day into 5 gallon buckets.  Our honey this year was darker than ususal ... probably more tree nectar.
Afterwards we put the cappings out on our picnic tables for the bees to clean up.  It only took an hour before the scout bees had found the feast and reported back to hive to bring reinforcements below ...

Ironweed and goldenrod is beginning to bloom ... a sign that fall is not far away.  Also, in the field behind our house,  a group of bucks were gathered with a few does.  The picture quality is not good ... big lens and not much light ...

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