Bir süredir Kars'a, eşim ve minik arım (kızım)'ın yanına gitmek üzere program yapıyordum. Yola çıkmadan önce bazı işleri halletmem gerekiyordu. Geçen sonbaharda kurduğumuz zeytinler olmuş, satmak üzere bir kaç kutu zeytini Mustafakemalpaşa'ya, Emin Ağabey'e götürdüm. (Emin Ağabey şarküteri işletiyor.) Eeee Mustafakemalpaşa'ya gidip Halil Bilen Usta'mıza uğramamak olmazdı tabi.
I was making plans to fly to Kars to see my wife and little honey bee (my daughter). Before leaving, there was some work that needed to be settled. The olives harvested last autum were almost ripe, so i took some olives to Mustafakemalpaşa to Emin, a friend who runs a delicatessen. He sells our olives. Whenever i go to Mustafakemalpaşa, i always visit my beekeeping master Halil Bilen.
I found him working in his apiary.
There was a terrible storm on 19th April. The storm knocked down 90 poplar trees, which were just behind the hives but luckily no trees hit the hives.
Master Bilen served us mineral water and we chatted for some time.
Our master built a coop for his new born chicks.
Our master started to fill the mating nucs in order to start raising queens.
He placed the pollen next to the mating nucs in the shade to dry.
We tasted the pollens together.
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Öğleden sonra, Kars'a gitmeden önce kendi kovanlarımı kontrole gittim.
In the afternoon, i went to check my hives before going to Kars.
First, our tiny swarm,...
Here is her majesty, not mated yet... just as i was taking the picture she turned her back.
Then our stock hive...
They drank all the sugar syrup and ate the fondant candy...
New syrup is given to the colony due to their performance.
Sonra arılığıma gittim...Then i drove to my apiary....
I know, my apiary is covered by weeds but what can i do? I don't have any time to trim them.
During my controls i saw that hive number 10 was quite strong and crowded and hive number 47 was rather weak.
I decided to change the place of two hives, so that both hives will be balanced. Some beekeepers may disagree with me but this method also helps to dicrease the swarming risk. (I will be away for almost a week.)
In such applications, cumin is a good and natural uniting agent. Especially the smell of cumin avoids bees attack each other.
I, once more, saw that bees don't like the formic acid vapour.
They tried to cover the formic acid canal with propolis.
Cumin on all frames...
Then number 47 next to number 10 ....
47 in the place of 10....
10 in the place of 47...
Sonuç ?????????
The result ???????
Baştan çekinen fakat sonra mecburen kovana giren tarlacılar
Foragers, first hesitating to enter the hive and then entering the hive
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Aynı gün öğleden sonra arkadaşım Enver geldi ve beraber "Parça Boyu" denilen mevkiye gittik.
The same day my friend Enver came and we went to the region named "Parca Boyu"
Parca Boyu is only 3 - 4 km away from Karacabey. Though i have heard its name so many times, this is the first time i have been to this region. Pastures, farms and fields have nested here. Enver has swarm traps here. We decide to leave two traps for me.
Our first stop is Günes Ciftligi (The Sun Ranch)...
Enver, sprays swarm perfum (pheromone) to the hives...
He is so assertive about the pheromone,... we will see if it works or not...
Then we went to check his trap hives...
All traps were controlled meticulously.
A few pictures from the region...
Artık Kars'a gitme vakti,... önce otobüs...
It is time to go to Kars,... first by bus....
Sonra hava alanı ve işte uçağımız....
And then the airport and here is our plane...
A modest breakfast at the plane...
No matter how hot Western Türkiye is, the snow starts in Central Anatolia - somewhere near Sivas province..
And we are in Kars....
Kars Airport is a small airport,... since international flights started in recent years, it can not carry the air traffic... construction of the new building had started but no one knows when it will be finished...
I arrived Digor by noon... No more yearning left...
The next day i came to Kars with my wife in order to make some shopping.... As we came to Kars, we visited our citizen (Osman is from Karacabey, too.). When we first arrived to Kars in February, Osman helped us a lot. It is really touching to see the car number 16 when you are homesick. [The traffic code of my hometown is 16]
Shopping is the same everywhere...
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Biraz Kars'tan bahsedeyim....
Let me give you some brief information about Kars....
The history of Kars goes back to 130 B.C. I won't go into detail but today's Kars was established after 1877, the date when the Russians invaded the city.
The Russians stayed in Kars for 40 years. The city was planned by the Russians. There are so many stone old historical buildings and all are typical sample of Russian architecture.
There are contemporary statues in such a historical city.
The city is little bit poor on behalf of shopping choices,... Only Migros provides the most diverse shopping options.
Kars is famous for its gruyere cheese and honey.
There are so many shops selling gruyere cheese and honey.
I couldn't stop myself and entered a shop selling honey and beekeeping equipment.
I didn't have much time and we made a small chat with the shop owner Şerefettin Demirhan. I asked why i hadn't seen any hives though i had come to Kars three times before.
He answered that the bees were taken to Iğdır, the neighbouring province which has a milder climate, for wintering.
I left the shop promising to visit again the next time i come to Kars.
When we returned back home, i saw that my little bee had woken up and she was waiting us in the garden with her grandma.
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The next day we cut some plastic water bottles into two and filled them with soil and planted fresh onions.
On Monday, we went to the village school to visit my wife,
of course with my little bee.
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İlk kez Ermenistan'ı net bir şekilde gördüm. Önceki ziyaretimde kar yağıyordu, görememiştim..
For the first time i saw Armenia clearly. In my previous visit, it was snowy, therefore i couldn't see.
Arka planda görülen dağlar, tepeler Ermenistan toprakları.... Fotoğraf yeterince derinlik göstermiyor ama okul sınıra gerçekten çok yakın.
The mountains, hills seen in the background are the Armenian lands... The photo can not give enough deepness but the school is really close to the border.
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Sevdiklerimize veda etme zamanı. (Sadece tesadüf, yine aynı uçak beni geri götürdü)
Time to farewell to our beloveds. (Just coincedence, the same plane took me back)
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