So the idea is for me and my Bee Master sister to hold that empty hive up to the clumps and kindof scrape, brush, and nudge them into it, along with any Queen bee that may or may not be in the clump.
We got a step ladder and set the empty on top of it and leaned it up against the fence. We had the top of the empty box right below them and started with the clump on the post. We just scraped off a couple of scoops of bees onto the top of the hive and I mean it is the coolest thing to watch them all start marching in!
Anyway, they didn't stay in the hive. They went back to the main hive. There probably wasn't a real Queen in that clump.
So we went for the next biggest clump in the middle of the fence, and so far they have stayed! YAY! But it's supposed to get below freezing for the next three nights in a row, so it's going to be touch and go. I'm not worried about the main hive but it's going to be hard for the new one to get going.
But we can try again!
Here's too many bee pictures.

Beeautiful!  It's so cool how the hive mind directs them all in unison to do all the things they do. And knowing how much we need bees for their pollination make them all the more compelling. We all need bees and those bees need Joe! 

Good Morning, ID, I hear you got a little more snow up there. Guess you'll have a couple more weeks of winter.

Well, the easiest best way to collect a new hive is to have an empty one, or two, set up close by for the bees to  get familiar with before they swarm. Then, when the queen has been mated and they are done with their business, hopefully they will like the empties enough to move in and occupy by themselves.
But I did not do that in time. I got an empty hive box just a few weeks before they swarmed so they did not have time to get used to it. So when they first swarmed, I got lucky and they collected in three swarms on the fence. I held the empty hive below the clump on the fence and my sister scraped them off the fence with a wide putty knife and into the hive. We did not get stung at all because the bees are only interested in taking care of their business. But the first clump we scraped into the hive did not have a queen, so after getting them into the hive and closing it up they all left. But the second clump we scraped off the fence did have a queen so we got one new hive.

Unfortunately, I only had the one extra hive, so a couple days later when the main hive swarmed again, they landed in the top of our neighbors magnolia tree. They hung out in a clump in that tree for about 4 or 5 days before finding their new home somewhere. I hate I lost that swarm because that had my original queen and was easily over a thousand bees. If I had had a new empty hive set up in the yard for them, that they were already familiar with, then they probably would've occupied it, but since I didn't, they have found a new home. 
So I have two hives now, one old one and one new one, but not nearly as many bees. I have one new empty hive set up and want to get a couple more so I'm ready for the next swarm, which probably won't be until next Spring.
It's usually the second year before you have any honey worth collecting, so maybe I'll have something by the end of this year.

You ought to get yourself a hive set up and see if anything moves in!
Have a Good Easter Weekend!

Well Joe did you get any honey last fall from your bee's?

I don't think the bee's would survive our winters and don't want to build them an apartment to winter over with.

They bring in hives here in the spring and take them out come fall.

Well, since there hasn't been a whole lot of action in the "Field Trip" section lately I may as well update this thread to 2023.
After not being prepared for the 'Swarm' last year, I was ready for them this year and had three extra hives ready to go.
I was down to the one hive last year, and that hive was packed. Bees wing to wing! They were ready to swarm first chance they got. The crazy up and down temperatures didn't help any. Nobody knew what to do. 
That one hive ended up swarming six times over two weeks. Bees everywhere. First they'd cluster in a tree and the next day move to a bush, or the fence.  In the end I managed to collect two more hives, so we're up to three!
I didn't take pictures of all the swarms, but here are two pics of their first swarm of the year.  This was a trial run. It only warmed up for a few hours that afternoon and then they all went back to the hive. They're hard to see in the first picture but the air is full of them.  And then settled into three clumps in the jasmine vine.