Bearman Cartoon – Wind Farm

Bearman Cartoon Wind Farm Hazard for Birds

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.ย ย  Careful jumping in with both feet…especially if you are a bird.

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UPDATE:ย  Check out the guest cartoon I did for Carlo Jose San Juanย at Callous Comics.ย  Story of Riann Nicah a newly practicing physician.ย  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.ย ย  Great thing is, Carlo’s day job is a real physician specializing in nuclear medicine.ย  So not only does he shame me in the drawing world, he shames me in the real world too.ย 

And thank you Carlo for the mention of my charity challenge.ย  Want to get involved too? ย Please click the pic below to find out how you can help with no cost to you.

Comments

59 responses to “Bearman Cartoon – Wind Farm”

  1. FJ Avatar

    Bird mortality regarding wind farms is a big issue with avian biologists. Seems raptors are particularly venerable.

    1. bearman Avatar

      Raptors always sounds so prehistoric

  2. Bo Lumpkin Avatar

    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.

    1. bearman Avatar

      Not if the groung scavengers get to it first

      1. bearman Avatar

        Oops “ground”

      2. Bo Lumpkin Avatar

        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.

        1. Bearman Avatar

          “treed”??

  3. nursemyra Avatar

    at least he didn’t lose his tail feathers…. he’s still got something to shake

    1. bearman Avatar

      But it’s difficult to shake your boody when every move hurts

  4. Tracy Brady Avatar

    You’re right, Bear.. there is so much stuff we’ve made that rocks our world.. but jacks up Mother Nature’s.

    1. bearman Avatar

      If you have ever seen the “after humans” program on Discovery, you realize that mother nature is still stronger.

  5. jammer5 Avatar

    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 ๐Ÿ™‚
    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.

    1. bearman Avatar

      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!

  6. MJ Avatar

    If we get enough wind farms will every city be called The Windy City?

    1. bearman Avatar

      I think where the Friggin Loon lives is already known as the windy city…but not in a good way

      1. Friggin Loon Avatar

        Yes, and so is under my sheets ๐Ÿ™ .

        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!

  7. Bo Lumpkin Avatar

    Maybe they ought to put them windmills around the halls of congress.

    1. bearman Avatar

      That would def be a renewable source

  8. Corve Avatar

    lol love this one. Any decision will affect someone and not making one will affect someone as well.

    1. bearman Avatar

      Or as my dad always said “damned if you do and damned if you don’t”

      1. Corve Avatar
  9. Jande Avatar

    Painfully funny!

    Where will the windmills come from–what’s left of George Bush’s cranial cavity?

    1. bearman Avatar

      I hear if you put his head up to your ear you can hear the ocean.

      Thanks for stopping by

  10. SpilledInkGuy Avatar

    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! ๐Ÿ™‚

    1. Bearman Avatar

      One of those lives you mean..haha

      1. SpilledInkGuy Avatar

        That rumor has been blowing around … ๐Ÿ™‚

  11. George Avatar

    I think I love your title for this comic most of all. ๐Ÿ˜€

    And nice work on the Callous guest-strip too!

    1. Bearman Avatar

      I try hard to make my titles as witty as yours.

  12. jill Avatar

    Birds will just have to wise up to the new kids on the block! No more flying around like they own the air. ๐Ÿ™‚

    1. Bearman Avatar

      That’s right. The airlines do.

  13. notapeopleperson Avatar

    If the birds hit the props, they might damage them…

    BAN ALL BIRDS!!!!

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Actually I did read that bird shit slows down the blades and makes them less efficient so you are more right than you think.

  14. drewbie Avatar

    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.

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Kind of like the squirrels who like to play dodge em with my car in my neighborhood. Maybe they were making a bird dare.

  15. DadaHyena Avatar

    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.

    1. Bearman Avatar

      What’s a better shoelace than velcro???

  16. bschooled Avatar

    If it makes you feel any better Bearman, I’m sure you shame me in the real world…

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Shame you in what?? What are we talking about again?

  17. bschooled Avatar

    Ps. Fowl humor is really your thing…

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Badum dum. she is here all week folks. Hope she doesn’t lay an “egg” bwahahah

  18. Chris W. Avatar

    Ouch. When does that oil spill reach shore, anyway?

    1. Bearman Avatar

      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.

      1. Lynn Avatar

        “blast it with a mini nuclear detonation”? naaaww… that cant be good.

        1. Bearman Avatar

          That’s what I thought.

  19. susispice Avatar

    hello permanent bad hair days hehe

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Can’t ruffle those feathers much more.

  20. ridgekeeper Avatar

    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.

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Hi Ridgekeeper. Thanks for stopping by. Love the passion.

  21. Friggin Loon Avatar

    I hear Jammers was his own wind farm….in his pants! Blahahahahaa couldn’t resist ๐Ÿ™‚

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Obviously you didn’t see my comment on Jammers recent Wind Farm post.

      1. Friggin Loon Avatar

        Yes I did but I was hoping the late comers to your blog wouldn’t have read it ๐Ÿ™‚

  22. Tony Avatar

    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.

    1. Bearman Avatar

      What about giant fan guards. Protected my stupid curious ass from cutting my finger off as a kid.

      1. Tony Avatar

        I like the shuttle bus the best. Extra employment for bus drivers & the birdys get to rest their wings a bit

        1. Friggin Loon Avatar

          But there would be friggin shit on the seats Tony ๐Ÿ™

          1. Bearman Avatar

            What if they have a bus with a john.

    2. lynn Avatar

      tony, that’s brilliant!!

  23. blunt delivery Avatar

    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.

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Thanks Brit. Good to see you up among the happy people.