With the oil spill heading toward the coastline of Louisiana, the call for expansion of wind farms and the use of them as alternate energy streams already is getting loud. Careful jumping in with both feet…especially if you are a bird.
UPDATE: Check out the guest cartoon I did for Carlo Jose San Juan at Callous Comics. Story of Riann Nicah a newly practicing physician. Some get guardian angels; well she ended up with Cal, a guardian duck who is as new to the guardian position as Riann is to the medical field. Great thing is, Carlo’s day job is a real physician specializing in nuclear medicine. So not only does he shame me in the drawing world, he shames me in the real world too.
And thank you Carlo for the mention of my charity challenge. Want to get involved too? Please click the pic below to find out how you can help with no cost to you.
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59 responses to “Bearman Cartoon – Wind Farm”
Bird mortality regarding wind farms is a big issue with avian biologists. Seems raptors are particularly venerable.
Raptors always sounds so prehistoric
Ha… LOL.. Now not only do you have road kill but you have windkill but the buzzards will have to learn to fly under the props to get to their meals.
Not if the groung scavengers get to it first
Oops “ground”
Yeah, a possum ain’t really nuthin’ but a ground buzzard! I know a man who said he used to eat possums until one night he treed about 4 of them inside a dead cow.
“treed”??
at least he didn’t lose his tail feathers…. he’s still got something to shake
But it’s difficult to shake your boody when every move hurts
You’re right, Bear.. there is so much stuff we’ve made that rocks our world.. but jacks up Mother Nature’s.
If you have ever seen the “after humans” program on Discovery, you realize that mother nature is still stronger.
I predict birds will evolve radar systems to navigate the hazards. Either that or titanium edged wings, so they can cut through the props as they fly through 🙂
BTW, cats, cars and buildings kill way more birds than windmills ever will, regardless of how many we build. Renewable energy: the way to go.
I have heard that argument and don’t disagree. Yet I bet if we looked at it in percentages wind farms would win out esp when talking about endangered eagles and hawks.
I’ll have to find the article but the Danish who were the early proponents of wind have actually cut back the number of wind farms due to unpredictability and it actually ended up being only surplus energy. Traditional energy consumption didn’t decrease.
I am all for alternative energy but people shouldn’t rush into any and everything because of emotion from an oil spill. Solar power baby!
If we get enough wind farms will every city be called The Windy City?
I think where the Friggin Loon lives is already known as the windy city…but not in a good way
Yes, and so is under my sheets 🙁 .
Hey Bearman, if they were really serious about windfarms, they would have electrified them and have an endless supply of cooked meat for the poor! Nothin like chewing on a crispy blue bird!
Maybe they ought to put them windmills around the halls of congress.
That would def be a renewable source
lol love this one. Any decision will affect someone and not making one will affect someone as well.
Or as my dad always said “damned if you do and damned if you don’t”
exactly
Painfully funny!
Where will the windmills come from–what’s left of George Bush’s cranial cavity?
I hear if you put his head up to your ear you can hear the ocean.
Thanks for stopping by
I’ve got gas, although I tend to prevent it from becoming wind.
I have no idea where that comment came from, but I do apologize profusely. Just one of those days, I guess! 🙂
One of those lives you mean..haha
That rumor has been blowing around … 🙂
I think I love your title for this comic most of all. 😀
And nice work on the Callous guest-strip too!
I try hard to make my titles as witty as yours.
Birds will just have to wise up to the new kids on the block! No more flying around like they own the air. 🙂
That’s right. The airlines do.
If the birds hit the props, they might damage them…
BAN ALL BIRDS!!!!
Actually I did read that bird shit slows down the blades and makes them less efficient so you are more right than you think.
I passed through a wind farm on my way to Chicago a couple weekends ago. We saw a bird go down. It was neat, funny, and sad all at the same time.
Kind of like the squirrels who like to play dodge em with my car in my neighborhood. Maybe they were making a bird dare.
Poor nature. Seems no matter how mankind progresses some species always wind sup suffering. Some scientist is going to invent a better shoelace and BAM!, all the elephants go extinct. It could happen.
What’s a better shoelace than velcro???
If it makes you feel any better Bearman, I’m sure you shame me in the real world…
Shame you in what?? What are we talking about again?
Ps. Fowl humor is really your thing…
Badum dum. she is here all week folks. Hope she doesn’t lay an “egg” bwahahah
Ouch. When does that oil spill reach shore, anyway?
They got some ring around it and are going to try to suck it up. Russian newspapers say blast it with a mini nuclear detonation. That’s how they do it.
“blast it with a mini nuclear detonation”? naaaww… that cant be good.
That’s what I thought.
hello permanent bad hair days hehe
Can’t ruffle those feathers much more.
What is insane is making people think that bird killing wind turbines will replace oil. That is just….STUPID. Only 2% of our electricity comes from OIL. ONLY 2%! The same people who think wind power will replace oil, must also think that wind turbines WORK. They produce very little electricity, despite spending millions PER turbine. And yes, they kill thousands of birds!
If you want to continue your delusion about wind power, think of this…what if you STRIKE OIL when blasing to ram those turbines in beautiful mountain tops! Again, a fantasy, a delusion.
Hi Ridgekeeper. Thanks for stopping by. Love the passion.
I hear Jammers was his own wind farm….in his pants! Blahahahahaa couldn’t resist 🙂
Obviously you didn’t see my comment on Jammers recent Wind Farm post.
Yes I did but I was hoping the late comers to your blog wouldn’t have read it 🙂
Maybe they need to build tunnels under the wind farms for the birds to fly through. Or cover them with large birdwire mesh cages. The wind generators that is, not the birds. Imagine a wire mesh covered bird trying to fly. Or they could run a “Windfarm by-pass shuttle bus service for them.
What about giant fan guards. Protected my stupid curious ass from cutting my finger off as a kid.
I like the shuttle bus the best. Extra employment for bus drivers & the birdys get to rest their wings a bit
But there would be friggin shit on the seats Tony 🙁
What if they have a bus with a john.
tony, that’s brilliant!!
bearman. i’ve been pulling myself out of the depths of depression again. going to try to blog more, it wouldn’t be hard to do more than i am. … i still love you though and cool that you’re doing the charity challenge again. i’ll see if i can blog a little something about it.
Thanks Brit. Good to see you up among the happy people.