Eufaula Bird Killers

[Rdcldad]

seeing more and more exposure on twitter of the wind mill machinations

eg corrupt politicians make deals with foreign entities to exploit oklahoma’s beautiful peace and quiet in the countryside to produce gubmit subsidized otherwise not economicly feasible wind power

my first experience with this was years ago a landowner expressing they were approached to trade a quarter for a half section

three years later the quarter would have had 2windmills on it

 

[2012Bearcat]

Windfarms devastate wildlife where ever the are built.

 

[Ostatedchi]

Birds are way down at the farm since the wind farms were put in.

 

[fairdinkem]

Windfarms devastate wildlife where ever the are built.

Back in the early '80's I had to travel I-205 / I-580 near Altamont pass in CA for business. They had just installed the first +/- 50 wind turbines and were gloating & bragging obnoxiously. Around 8-months later I actually took Altamont Rd to drive closer to the farm. What I found was hundreds of protesters with their hair on fire because the blades of the turbines were killing protected birds of prey. They were demanding that the blades be stopped regardless of the economic investment/loss the owners would have incurred. This included huge state supplemental funds since the wind turbines did not pay for themselves in power generation revenues.

To cut to the chase, if you want to see what America will look like under an extended liberal rule you need not look past the Californicators & their politicians.

 

[LAY THE WOODY]

What works in Scandinavianland doesn't work down here in South Texas. We're smack dab in the middle lane of our planets largest bird migration. Texas has dedicated a thousand+miles of coastal conservation for migratory birds with our country's largest sanctuaries along the entire Texas coast from orange to Brownsville.

 

[fairdinkem]

What works in Scandinavianland doesn't work down here in South Texas. We're smack dab in the middle lane of our planets largest bird migration. Texas has dedicated a thousand+miles of coastal conservation for migratory birds with our country's largest sanctuaries along the entire Texas coast from orange to Brownsville.

True dat. I spent 25-years hunting ducks & geese in rice paddies in wet blinds. Everything was great for a while. I could have 6 13 yr.-olds awake at my house in Katy at 5:00 am. Hit the lease gate in 25-minutes and have the dekes set & 7-unloaded guns & 1 dog in the blind @ 15-minutes to shooting time. For years, even with the developing accuracy of my young hunters, they had their limits & the dekes picked up and back at the car by 10:45 to 11:00 AM. We hit the bird cleaner by 11:30, got our birds breasted or plucked and headed to breakfast buffet before noon.

This went on for years until they built what is called the Houston Executive Airpark just west of Katy & north of I-10 directly on our largest roost. Once the equipment came in the birds veered to the west. Once the runways were in and the operations in force the birds mostly disappeared to Eagle Lake and Atascocita. Our "bed to blind" times went from an hour to 3-hours minimum. I still hunted with my second son & his friends as I did above with the oldest but they never came away with the enthusiasm of having to get up at 3:00 in the morning and driving for 2-hours.

The good times (easy bird hunting) were gone for good for us.

 

[LAY THE WOODY]

True dat. I spent 25-years hunting ducks & geese in rice paddies in wet blinds. Everything was great for a while. I could have 6 13 yr.-olds awake at my house in Katy at 5:00 am. Hit the lease gate in 25-minutes and have the dekes set & 7-unloaded guns & 1 dog in the blind @ 15-minutes to shooting time. For years, even with the developing accuracy of my young hunters, they had their limits & the dekes picked up and back at the car by 10:45 to 11:00 AM. We hit the bird cleaner by 11:30, got our birds breasted or plucked and headed to breakfast buffet before noon.

This went on for years until they built what is called the Houston Executive Airpark just west of Katy & north of I-10 directly on our largest roost. Once the equipment came in the birds veered to the west. Once the runways were in and the operations in force the birds mostly disappeared to Eagle Lake and Atascocita. Our "bed to blind" times went from an hour to 3-hours minimum. I still hunted with my second son & his friends as I did above with the oldest but they never came away with the enthusiasm of having to get up at 3:00 in the morning and driving for 2-hours.

The good times (easy bird hunting) were gone for good for us.

Fan boats from late September through Thanksgiving weekend were an annoyance for me and my guests around aransas bay all the way north up the intercoastal to the cuts into mesquite bay. My boat limits every time though. I'm booked for years to come. I can hunt down any and all fish but, I couldn't shoot a bird out of the sky if my life depended on it. 😁