Bees, Birds & Blooms

I snapped some photos of the flower garden

during our brew day today, an Irish Stout

that I'll be posting on in a day or so.

The  temperatures have been in the 90s

after a very wet Spring so 

now things are looking a bit more like our summers.

The bees are loving all the blooms 

from cone flowers to iron weed and what 

remains of the bee balm and butterfly bush.

We've had yellow butterflies, large and small black ones

that playfully flutter by each other, competing for 

sweet nectar.   Today a hummingbird moth was checking

out the iron weed.

There are bees all over this,

large and small to very teeny tiny.

The chicks also were on the receiving end of 

Brew Day munching on the grains used 

to make the wort.

I didn't hear any complaining from them or the humans

on the other side of the courtyard.

Soon our second batch of chicks will be joining the coop while

the first chick batch is released into the general population.

They have spent the last few weeks in the coop but

sectioned off by chicken wire.  They  squeeze up

next to the older ones (as their roost in also

divided by the wire) so they are used to touching and

being together now. The second batch will go

into the divided area to repeat the process.

I have to hatch a couple more to keep my little Special

Needs chick company since it can't leave the house so 

until someday when it gets big I guess I'll be rotating chicks

in and out of the house!  

More on brew day coming soon.