Thanks for sharing!! I love your close ups of the hive.

Hi from Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 from a colder (Near Winter.) Our Bees had a mild Day yesterday (11C) and they all came out on mass to do Food Shopping and Bathroom Breaks. 🤭 A tiny amount of Pollen seen on an odd Bee. Interesting what might be producing that. . . Maybe an odd Dandelion on / in a more sheltered area (?) Tip : Here when adding more Boxes (we are famous for Heather Honey here) we take into account the 'Chimney Effect 'Bees' like to do in Hives. Like a "Tree Cavity". Nature knows best. 🙃 Keep the Brood more in the Centre of each Box : eg Move up say x4 Frames of Brood into that centre spot in that 'New' empty Top Box. Add in new empty Foundation Frames into those outer Slots in that lower Brood and upper Box, where bees will fill once activity increases ! I like personally, to do all Deep Boxes, to Frames. Re Langstroth, UK Nationals our Hive designs of choice. Heavy I know, but hey, the useful 'swap-about' factor (add this here or there): easy if all Boxes or Equipment takes same type of Frame, although a National is a tad shorter in length than the USA Langstroth. . . 😉 For Brood Deep Frames 'Using them temporarily in Supers : to draw "Up" the Bees is a Fab Tip or Trick ! How you ask ? By adding Medium Honey Frames into the Supers,in the outer slots, using x2 Supers Boxes (Stacked on each other ) Gives those Deeper "Brood" Frames 'room' re depth, in middle of said Box(es) and shallower Frames on outer. . .you might get a tiny bit of under/brace Drawn down Comb under those shorter (gap) areas : but it can be scrapped off easily. As those Bees come "up" to Nurse that Brood. Known Fact : Brood is a magnet for Bees. Add that. . . and Bees find it instantly ! Once Brood hatches out, up there, they back fill those empty Cells with Honey. Take those deeper 'ex Brood' Frames out. Add to eg a Starter Nuc, or another Brood Hive that needs Resources to boost it. Maybe another Hive has less Bee population, thus less stores etc. Adding in will boost them too. . . Then add more Super Frames into your added Honey Box, to those spare spaces, (or in that two over Box set up.) Doubling your Honey build in no time. Same 'theory' applies to Honey Supers too. . . Chimney those Centre locations with partially filled Frames. Outer : add more Foundation Frames. Build up works way faster. A win, win for Bees and Beekeeper alike. Principle : All useful stuff... Guaranteed to get any added Box, filled with 'Bee Activity', in no time. AND get your Colony to have : 1) Brood Laying Space. 2) Get the next Box filled Quicker. 3) Use this setup to help other Colonies or Bee needs re Nuc/Hive 'Splits.' Mini mating Nucs Prep (nesting Mini Frames within Super or Brood Frames.) 4) Helps the Apiary too. Hope this helps. 😎 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝 Happy Beekeeping 2023 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝 New Subscriber here. . . Will miss Aussie KZfaqr Bush Bee Man in S.A. (He's ceasing doing Videos I heard recently? Why ???) So need to get my Oz Beek fix via another Down Under Beek ! Will learn of your locality soon, I guess, after watching this, your 1st KZfaq footage seen by myself. Off to watch a few more. 👍

Is it to be expected that the bees would expand brood over two standard boxes while there is practically no capped honey (i.e. no stores) at the top? Mine in the Geelong area have built up an Ideal full of honey on top of one (Carniolan) or two (Italian) standard boxes with brood.

Loving this series of videos! Are you finding that the bees tend to move upwards with their brood nest as they eat through honey from above? This leaves the bottom box relatively empty. I am in the NE, 100km from you are. We have the opposite problem- honey bound due to an unprecedented yellow box mass flowering event.