We have a garden that gets LOTS of honeybee traffic all year round.
Usually at least a dozen or more bees always present there and always coming and going and they all take the same path into and out of the garden.
Generally the path they take is a pretty narrow "approach & departure pattern" maybe 10 ft wide by about 5 ft high all the way from the garden to over our trees and out of the yard. All the bees follow that path.
But over the months I've noticed that the path they take in and out (presumably from their hive and back) has shifted.
I think it might have to do with the height or angle of the sun changing with the seasons , but it doesn't matter if it's morning, high noon or approaching sunset. The bees follow the same path regardless of the time of day. But the path DOES change with the seasons.
Here's the MS Paint explanation.
The yard walls are brown lines, orange patch is the garden, green are the trees and blue is the pool.