Audubon California Executive Director Graham Chisholm and Nell Newman, founder of Newman's Own Organics and a noted raptor advocate, have an opinion piece in tomorrow's San Francisco Chronicle demanding that the County of Alameda get serious about addressing the problem of bird kills at the Altamont Pass wind energy farm. It is estimated that somewhere between 7,500 and 9,300 birds are killed every year at Altamont -- many  of them protected species such as Golden Eagle, Burrowing Owl. The county has an opportunity in the coming weeks to do something about this, and it should show some backbone.