More Heat, and Honey

After some days last week of cool, drizzly weather, (it was wonderful!) the heat is back, 34C today and yesterday after a weekend of low 30's.
I had a look at the bees on Sunday. Having extracted 5 supers of honey two weeks previously I thought it was time to put the stickies back so the wax moths grubs didn't damage them. I'd suspected there had been honey coming in since I extracted as the bees had been busy when the weather was good and there'd been no bees sniffing around the shed. When I took some jars of honey to my friends Mark and Jane at 'Sunset', where I have a beehive, Jane said she'd been smelling honey on hot days when she walked in the mornings.
Each hive had a full box of honey on it, including the swarm I caught in early December in the cemetery. The hive at 'Sunset' had two full boxes of honey. I under supered with the stickies and left the honey on the bees for another day soon when I have the time and energy to get it off and go another round in the extracting shed. There goes another weekend of spare time.
It shouldn't be happening. Last year's record crop which took it's toll on me from a work load point of view should have meant an 'off' year this time round, but this next extract will be the third of the summer and the boxes are more 'filled' this time than the previous two extracts. And the honey is still flowing in, the source a mystery to me. There's been a few messmates flowering, the few odd trees that didn't flower last year, but there must be something else within bee range. I'd love to know what else the bees are working.
Not that it will approach anything like the tally of last year, but for a stationary apiary, one that isn't moved from flow to flow, it'll end up being a good season, perhaps in excess of 'three tins per hive',** a fair season even for a commercial migratory apiary. But it's not in the tank yet and maybe I'm counting chickens before they hatch.

** Commercial apiarists talk in terms of 'tins per hive', or they did when I was in the industry, meaning the old 4 gallon tins, which held 60lb of honey, or 27kg. They still talked 'of tins per hive', even though they were using 44gallon drums by then. Generally speaking a year would produce 2-6 tins, average 4, of course some years could go higher and the odd year there may be little if any. A good flow on a particular floral source would be upward of one tin, with 4 tins being a big flow.