Keeping Our Bees Hidden While Keeping Full Supers Safe

You have a tall one there, why not pull off the already capped boxes?

Dude, simply put the capped hives on the smaller hive.
There is no need to get it that tall.
We are talking injury of some accident.
Also, there no need to use a bee escape. The bees get along just fine.

Yep, more neighbors noticing = more problems = more honey you have to give away to keep them quiet! Looks like you have plenty though! Having bees in there is probably not a problem. Also you could just shake them into the colony or at the front. It upsets them less you'd think and definitely than banging the boxes does. Take care.