Bicycles and the Cost of Gas

Chris Neary wrote:
The only known site with major bird
collision problems is located in the Altamont Pass in California. A
"wind wall" of turbines on lattice towers is literally closing off the
pass. There, a few bird kills from collisions have been reported."

I shudder to think that 1000 birds per year = "a few"

REF: http://www.wind-works.org/articles/N...dReport04.html

I hope you're ready to get rid of your glass windows. Because they
kill far far more birds than windmills ever will.

http://www.currykerlinger.com/birds.htm

--
Dane Jackson - z u v e m b i @ u n i x b i g o t s . o r g
Using words to describe magic is like using a screwdriver to cut roast beef.
-- Tom Robbins

Dane Jackson wrote:
I hope you're ready to get rid of your glass windows. Because they
kill far far more birds than windmills ever will.

http://www.currykerlinger.com/birds.htm

--
Dane Jackson - z u v e m b i @ u n i x b i g o t s . o r g
Using words to describe magic is like using a screwdriver to cut
roast beef.
-- Tom Robbins

Our big window gets more than a few bird collisions each year. But so
far no deaths. We hear the big "thud" and find a dazed dove wandering
around the patio. After a few minutes it flies off.
Or it could be just one dumb dove who hits the window over and over.

"gds" wrote:

Our big window gets more than a few bird collisions each year. But so
far no deaths. We hear the big "thud" and find a dazed dove wandering
around the patio. After a few minutes it flies off.
Or it could be just one dumb dove who hits the window over and over.

I was walking into a two story mirrored glass building a couple years
ago, and something fell at my feet. I thought it was a leaf or pine
cone, but then saw it was a hummingbird.

It was out cold - I picked it up and - let me tell you - those things
are LITTLE. Kind of a scale model of a real bird/dragonfly hybrid.
Hard to imagine anything warm blooded that light.

Anyway, the little guy came to after 15 seconds, shook its little head
and flew off like only a hummingbird can.

Mark Hickey
Habanero Cycles
http://www.habcycles.com
Home of the $695 ti frame

Mark Hickey wrote:

"gds" wrote:

Our big window gets more than a few bird collisions each year. But so
far no deaths. We hear the big "thud" and find a dazed dove wandering
around the patio. After a few minutes it flies off.
Or it could be just one dumb dove who hits the window over and over.

I was walking into a two story mirrored glass building a couple years
ago, and something fell at my feet. I thought it was a leaf or pine
cone, but then saw it was a hummingbird.

It was out cold - I picked it up and - let me tell you - those things
are LITTLE. Kind of a scale model of a real bird/dragonfly hybrid.
Hard to imagine anything warm blooded that light.

Anyway, the little guy came to after 15 seconds, shook its little head
and flew off like only a hummingbird can.

I'm thinking _The Green Mile_.

Maybe you just have the touch....

Neil Brooks wrote:
Mark Hickey wrote:

I was walking into a two story mirrored glass building a couple years
ago, and something fell at my feet. I thought it was a leaf or pine
cone, but then saw it was a hummingbird.

It was out cold - I picked it up and - let me tell you - those things
are LITTLE. Kind of a scale model of a real bird/dragonfly hybrid.
Hard to imagine anything warm blooded that light.

Anyway, the little guy came to after 15 seconds, shook its little
head and flew off like only a hummingbird can.

I'm thinking _The Green Mile_.

Or Max in "Roswell". (What can I say, the chicks were hot.)

Bill "who still remembers seeing a hummingbird when a kid and thinking the
bees are getting WAY too big" S.