The bees. They're going mental!

[jammy_basturd]

Just watching TV in the living room when I hear an almighty hmming/buzzing din. I look around into the garden out the back and the bees the neighbour keeps (4 hives) are all flying around within my garden. Literally every square inch of the air around my garden is covered with bees flying here, there and everywhere. A few minutes go by and they all start to settle on one point on the fence, as shown in the pics below. What on earth are they doing, creating a new hive or something?

Have to say it was an absolutely incredible thing to watch!

PS. Just as I'm typing this, the sparrow hawk we have in the area swoops down across the meadow over the back of the garden!

[jammy_basturd]

Ahhh, too late. Half an hour later they had all pretty much gone apart from a few loners.