We have all our family hives up on the heather land all year round, but this does bring problems in that whilst our heather honey comes in abundance, we get very little of any other honey throughout the year, so working / keeping bees in such a hardy, baron type environment is hard work.
Now this might be different if around where the moorland is situated has a good floral season - but we don't have that luxury being mainly slate quarries and sheep and many ou sand of acres of green only fields with not much flora, so feeding our bees at some times through the year is not uncommon, plus they can get a little grumpy because of it.
I'm thinking for the first time in 50 plus years of family beekeeping of moving 3 of my personal hives down towards the lowland anyday now to see how different they are this year.
Andy.