Bird kills [RE-wrenches]

[matthew tritt]

Joel,

O.K. 3 each seagulls - chopped to mincemeat - Arco oil platform off Santa
Barbara, 1981; 2 each Coopers Hawk, broken necks, Santa Barbara County and
San Luis Obispo County, late 80's; 1 each Thresher - late 80's, San
Bernardino County; California Condor - Tehachapi Mountains, 90's guy wire; 1
each Golden Eagle, - 90's Tehachapi Mountains - guy or blade; 2 each little
brown bats(!), Monterey County - 90's Blade strikes (fast rotor) and some
more. This is not for general publication by the way. Some people don't want
to be exposed to environmental lawsuits or attacked by Audubon club members.
Especially the Condor thing. I also have seen another Golden Eagle fried by
phase to phasing on a 12 kv line! Very bad transmission pole design.

Matt
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joel Davidson" <joeldavidson at earthlink.net>
To: <RE-wrenches at topica.com>
Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 3:26 PM
Subject: Re: Bird kills [RE-wrenches]


> Wind Wrenches only,
> I haven't had a wind machine since 1978, but more birds bounced off my
mountain home picture window than ever landed on my tower. I never met a
person who actually saw a dead bird at the base of a wind machine. How many
dead birds at the base of wind machines have you guys actually seen? Where?
What species?
> Best regards,
> Joel Davidson
> "A bird in the hand makes blowing your nose difficult."
>
> Jeff Oldham wrote:
>
> > This bird kill thing really gets to me, people love to feed off of this
out of porportion sound bite. I saw a study that put some perspective on it.
Windows in downtown Toronto kill more birds than all of the windgens in N.
America. Here at my home, since the tower has been up, my windows have
killed 2 birds and zero for the tower/wind gen.
> >
> > When someone brings up the subject of bird kills ask them if they have a
cat...
> >
> > -jeff
> >
> > Jeff Oldham
> >
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