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Tis the spring migration and my birds are coming in fast now that the weather has broke. Our local crane pair has been back for a few weeks and people are gathering swan information on the meadows.

And then I found this:

YouTube - Vulture accident

This vulture was lucky. Someone was there when it happened and made the calls to the proper authorities. It survived its broken wing and was released.

"There is plenty of evidence for the worldwide scale of this tragedy. The world’s largest and most carefully monitored wind farm, Altamont Pass in California, is estimated to have killed between 2,000 and 3,000 golden eagles alone in the past 20 years."

Thats an estimate. If its accurate, thats 100 to 150 golden eagles a year. One every 3.5 days.

"For the rest of us, it is a criminal offence to kill bats and golden eagles. But it seems that all those under the spell of the infatuation with windpower and global warming can claim exemption from the law. In return for ludicrously small amounts of very expensive electricity, wildlife must pay the price for their dreams."

'Eco-friendly' - but not to eagles - Telegraph

Warning! Graphic pic of mutilated duck after hitting a wind turbine.

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Bats too:

"Bats, which play an enormous and often underappreciated role in our ecosystems, are being killed by wind turbines in alarming numbers. Researchers predict that up to 111,000 bats will die due to wind turbines in 2020 in just the Mid-Atlantic Highlands region of the US."

The Effect of Wind Energy Development on Bats | Synapse

I like bats. Heres a pic a friend took just last month:



The bat chased down a floating maple tree seed, mistaking it for an insect.

Follow-up with more information:

""I think the take home message from her work is that the species isn't going to heck in a hand basket all over the place," said Erik Beever, a wildlife ecologist who has studied pikas for the last 16 years and who has tracked the changes in pika populations in the Great Basin."

‘Boulder bunnies’ prove flexible amid warming - Discovery.com- msnbc.com

The format in Science News is messed up.

I got pretty sick of having to scan my 'puter when I visited.

Something was shutting down my firewall.
I updated java
Same problems.
I un-installed java

Did a bunch of rescans / reboots to clear the system.

During the worst of it (firewall shutdown) I was also getting Acrobat errors even though that program was not running. Went through my java temp files and found 3 files with the servehttp or httpserve name. I deleted those thinking there might be something going on with them. Still had issues. After taking out the java AND a rescan, the firewall hasnt shut down and the acrobat errors stopped. I do need a more current version of acrobat, but the last time I updated, I hated the changes and so I went back to an older version.

A few times visiting in the last day or so, I was seeing the httpserve or servehttp name coming up in the status bar as I loaded hypo. Scans afterwords did not fine issues. I still do not have Java installed.

Do you have info on what malware/virus was found?

I came up with PolicePro crap using my malware scan, but I cannot say it was from here or elsewhere where it was installed from.