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170 nests

over the last eight years.

Uh, you know, I wanted a clutch

of eagle eggs, you know,

for my own gratification,

if you like.

[Mark] They had golden eagle eggs.

There was also peregrine falcon eggs.

There was avocet eggs,

osprey eggs.

It was a real kind of amazing

moment and sad moment in one go.

These were, you know,

the shells of birds

that should have hatched

and should be flying around.

And here we have

Gonshaw again being

really destructive to birds.

They've described me as

a prolific egg collector.

I mean, blimey, the

second lot of eggs,

I only had 800 individual eggs.

People like these

protectionists,

they like to sort of, uh,

try and label egg collectors,

that there's something

wrong with them.

They've got an egg collection,

themselves, the RSPB,

but they don't tell all their members

that. They keep it all quiet.

Most of their eggs they've got is what

they've stolen off of other egg collectors.

They haven't taken

them out in the field.

Guys show up, of the

RSPB, as a house thief.

When the police

searched my flat,

they took everything that

was to do with birds.

He's got maps.

He's got the binoculars.

He's got clothing

that is camouflaged.

He also has The SAS

Survivor's Handbook,

a handbook for elite forces.

Obviously, it gave Mr. Gonshaw

to some interesting reading

at nighttime, including chapters

on evasion, capture, and escape.

[Matthew] Completely

cleaned me out, basically.

All my optics, I lost,

my GPS.

Everything.

[Charlie] This is what Gonshaw

used for blowing the eggs

and which the DNA evidence

was obtained from.

"I hope it never happens again,

so [omitted] off all you

protectionists and wildlife pigs.

The authorities are the ones which destroy

the planet, along with cars and aeroplanes.

I want no part with all this

greed and do what I believe in."

That was the

telescope I had there.

The guy showed up, the 50 that he stole

out of my flat. I paid 750 pounds for it.

I saved up a long time

for that telescope.

The man's a thief,

just a parasite, a thief.

I'd spit on him if

I see him again.

That's how I look at

him, is a piece of sh*t.

All we want these people to

do is stop egg collecting.

You know, we don't want to send any people to

jail. We just want them to stop egg collecting.

It's just got so

bad with this man

that jail sentences don't

seem to be any deterrent.

[Charlie] After he'd served a

six-month's jail sentence in England,

he was actually picked

up from the jail

and brought up to Scotland,

where he then faced

the Scottish charges and

was sentenced to six month's

imprisonment, but was also given

an anti-social behavior order.

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