Well, this is encouraging, for sure. And they haven't absconded. Which is great given the experience of several.
I switched hive bodies just before the cold snap. :/ I thought I might have lost them. But no, they're all there. For the past week they've been making a little beard on the front amd flying around, staying close. And pissy, I got popped in the knee for sitting down a few feet away, to the side.
I chalked it up to the weather, it's been blustery, overcast, in and out of rain. But then
Two miles away on the same day, my friend's bees are acting like it's spring, foraging in and out. And a big brood nest, whereas mine is two eggs and a larvae.
Maybe I messed them up swapping the boxes? The whole of the nest was in the top box and the bottom was empty drawn comb.