Drink anyone?

In the seeming endless list of things that irritate me about the Interwebnet, high in the list is 'cute' animal video clips.
Facebook particularly is infested not only with meaningless inspirational aphorisms that make 'You don't have to be mad to work here but it helps!! - share if you agree!!' sound positively Shakespearean, but with endless 'hilarious' videos of dogs running in to glass doors, parrots jumping up and down and cats with funny faces. LOL!
Therefore I'm slightly embarrassed to add to the collection with a video of a bee. Drinking water. OMG !!!!!

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Like us bees need to drink water but they also take on water to spit out in the hive and then fan it to maintain an even temperature in hot weather.

My apiary in Scald End has a stream just a couple of yards away but at Ravensden there's no standing water for a mile or two.

The issue with drinkers [and some feeders] is the problem of the bees drowning. I have used drinkers that use a Coke/Sprite bottle as a reservoir but I have never seen bees drinking from them and I'm not convinced they work.

The most bees I have seen drinking was after heavy rain when water built up on a board that was laying at an angle and the bees were able to walk down to the 'shore line' and drink.

People use bits of cork or straw as floats for the bees to land on but I liked the look of a marble tray.

Problem with this is that in warm weather the water evaporates quickly and you would have to constantly top it up. I have bought a small ball cock that I will attach to a jerry can and have some sort of gravity feed to it from a reservoir
There's no urgency to sort out something now as the girls are settling down for the winter but its something I want to sort out before next spring.