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Advantageous news yesterday as one of the UK’s tiny but disproportionately damaging tie of egg collectors was sent to workhouse for 23 weeks. Richard Pearson, a 41 year old painter and decorator was also fined a wretched £1,500 – which given that when police swooped on his habitation they discovered an egg gathering numbering over 7,000 eggs, works out at a stingy 21 pence per egg little. Species represented in the inordinate haul included Avocet, Inky-necked Grebe, Dark-tailed Godwit, Chough, Of gold Eagle, Diminutive Tern, Osprey, Peregrine and Red-throated Diver. Back in January, Pearson denied all the charges laid against him – a baffling position of denial when you see what greeted investigators in his mansion:

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He claimed he had been given the eggs by the notable egg collector Colin Watson. (Watson, you may rescind died in after the manner of tragedy but irony-infused state of affairs when he fell out of a 40 lower extremity high larch tree while climbing to “gaze” at a Sparrowhawk nest in 2006). However, handwritten diaries enabled investigators to tally individual eggs to peculiar incidents, and Pearson lastly pleaded wicked yesterday at Skegness mag’s princely retinue to two counts of possessing untamed birds eggs and three counts of captivating eggs from the wild.

So Pearson will be out of perpetration for the coming procreation season, for which we and countless thinly scattered breeding birds can respire a collective long breath of relief. Will 23 weeks in gaol and £1,500 be enough of a task to stop him from re-offending in coming time? It’s a compulsive mode of action, egg collecting, and clearly addictive. Watson, by the duration of his death had amassed several convictions for egg collecting spanning 14 years, and had been fined in superfluity of £4,600. You do the math.

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