#egg collectors

[julianrubinstein]

Operation Easter by Julian Rubinstein from the New Yorker

Extremists vs. extremists? Matthew Gonshaw is now banned from ever entering Scotland during the birding season for life, after his 51st conviction on charges of egg collecting. The once vaunted Jourdain Society has gone underground, its members communicating with each other using code numbers as aliases. Thanks to the New Yorker for publishing, and Byliner "collecting" it.

[sighkingu]

"This country, through Parliament, has decided we don’t want grown men wandering around the countryside, taking eggs out of birds’ nests," he said. "That’s the reality of it."