By Solon Economou, a columnist for the Cape Cod Times

While the Altamont Pass figures, involving 20-year-old obsolete turbines, have been touted in scare tactics by local wind farm opponents, the bird kill from modern offshore wind farms is virtually zero.

The Nysted wind farm of 72 turbines, which I visited in Denmark in a recent trip organized by Clean Power Now, had only two bird kills in two years. I'd wager that's fewer than the number that dies flying into the bay windows of the shoreline home owners who have mounted such an opposition to the wind farm.