Trap and catch missing. Person or equipment failure?
Start the morning off with a catch and trap missing. The animal wasn't in the trap long which leads me to believe it was probably a dog hunter. I end up back at the lake where I scouted in the kayak and set the culverts in the levee. I scouted back the other direction and found where the beaver are living and got sets put in there. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77x02g_FmHg
Here is a shortened video from my first Honeybee swarm capture this spring for the new subscribers that might not have watched it,
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjrwHDgzcng
I spotted a fawn interacting with the cattle behind the house and though I would see if I could get a better view. Grabbed the GoPro but got back there and forgot the sim card. Recorded with my cell phone.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7u3TMr_EYso
Had a Grey Fox caught in my first trap this morning and doubled up on Opossums in the same trap that we caught in the last video. I am finishing up a couple of beaver locations and moving traps to a new location. almost forgot.....got another Coyote caught also.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Lka50kqrRU
While on the line today ended up having many first experiences. Due to a mistake that I made (or was it?), I caught and held a beaver with a 330 by the back leg. Ended up making catches in both my new traps the long spring trap as well as the Duke 850's. At the last location no catches were made so I explored the area some more and located the main dam and the area that the beaver are living. Inside the dam was another first for me, I located a nice whitetail buck, that the beaver had used to build into part of their dam.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrnRlFJJQbc
Trying a new way to get the bees to draw new honeycomb directly into the honey jars. Always trying new things and learning.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KF2F-6X-abY
I am going through a hive that is marked to have something wrong with it. It is a very well populated, unhappy, and loud hive. I determined that it was hopelessly queenless and try to fix it with a previously captured queen right swarm. I then move a nucleus split that I have made a few days earlier where this swarm was sitting to capture the returning field bees. As I go through this nuc I find that the bees rejected the queen cells and had chewed into them killing the growing queens. So, it will have to be combined with another hive since I do not have access to any queens.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BifmrFBpTHQ