Declaring Success on the Salmon Negatives

 We've reached the point where all of the Salmon negatives have been cleaned and stored in acid free paper and boxes. 

Well we though t we had and we should manage it this week. What we found out at the last minute from Robin the Museum's photographer was that there were a few extras stored within the Dark Slides and he arranges to have these taken out for us so we have just a handful to deal with this week 

So there are a little over 3100 done and we have spent something like 2500 person hours on this as a team of volunteers which is incredible

We are now working on the archive and that's turning up a whole heap of new information, but more of that to come.  

In the mean time here are some nice pictures 

Red-backed Shrike Young in nest 22/6/1921

Grey heron, Thaw Valley 12/4/1925

Merlin and chicks, Ireland Moor, Radnorshire, 6/7/1952

Ronald Lockley (left) and Ex-king Ferdinand of Bulgaria (centre) at the IOC congress 1934 onboard a Royal Navy Destroyer "borrowed" for the day to ferry birdwatchers around 3 islands