We've been experiencing a few days of extreme weather (by our standards)
here in Birmingham UK. For the last few years we have had very few frosts,
but two nights ago the thermometer at my site registered a minimum of 20
Fahrenheit, with a couple of inches of powdery snow. Something had made an
unsuccessful attempt to gnaw its way in through my hive entrance. It was
definitely a rodent; going by the height of the hive, it was probably a
grey squirrel, though there's just a possibility it could have been a very
large rat. I haven't been able to check again due to work and weather(it's
currently snowing hard). Has anybody else experienced this?

Regards,

Robert Brenchley

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