Impact on eagles of wind energy projects

LLOYD Austin of the RSPB and Michael Strang Steel, (20 March), argue their respective cases very well, but what they omit to tell us is every bit as interesting.

Lloyd Austin carefully avoids mentioning wind farms in his contribution. Perhaps he could tell us more of the examples of wind farms in the Altamont pass in California, where thousands of golden eagles have been killed, or on the island of Smola in Norway, where sea eagle recruitment has all but been wiped out, and of the case of the Tasmanian wedge-tailed eagle, now brought to the margin of extinction by wind farms?

The RSPB receives 10 from Scottish and Southern Energy for every customer it signs up to its RSPB energy scheme. One may wonder what influence this has on the RSPB attitude to wind turbines.

Mr Strang Steel is silent on the numbers of other iconic Scottish wildlife species such as red fox, Scottish wildcat, stoats, weasels and martens that are killed in the name of game preservation.

RON GREER

Armoury House

Blair Atholl, Perthshire