Janesville Daily Gazette from Janesville, Wisconsin • Page 5

Playgrounders Study Art of Trapping' Birds By RUTH FOSTER "Trapping" birds sounds like a sadistic sport, one that would be distasteful to a gentle woman like Mrs. H. H. Maxson, Clear Lake. This is not the case.

It's one of her greatest interests and tomorrow she will share her enthusiasm for it with playground children who annually visit the Maxson bird sanctuary on Clear Lake, a vast oak and pine plantation surrounding the summer home of Mr. and Mrs. Maxson. Mrs. Maxson has, for .12 years, trapped birds and band- fid them for the U.S.

Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service. In those interesting years, she has recorded more than 30,000 birds of 152 species, some of which rarely find their way to Wisconsin. Only this month she trapped her first Kentucky Warbler, and the fact that it was here in June means, to an authority like Mrs. Maxson, that it is nesting here. A Saw Whet Owl, "an adorable little owl, only six inches high, which sounds as though a saw is being whetted," and a Hooded Warbler are others which have found their way into Mrs.

Maxson's traps. Actually the traps are nothing like the steel combinations of springs and teeth Board Says: Save Cash, Make Cash A suggestion award program for county employes was adopted unanimously yesterday by the Rock County Board of Supervisors. As drafted by the courthouse and veterans committee, the program involves award of money or special certificates to employes who make suggestions to improve county government. A special committee composed of two county supervisors and representatives of the department heads committee, the Rock County employes union and the Rock County ployes Association, will make the recommendations with the help of the executive secretary, L. A.

Wells. Cash awards will be made to employes who suggest changes which eliminate or reduce county expenses or improve government or changes which are not under consideration by the county department affected. Certificates will be given to employes for other suggestions which don't result in a significant savings to the countv or for employes who are ineligible for a cash award. A token sum of $15 may be awarded and other awards may go as high as 10 per cent of the estimated first year savings not to exceed $100. Special tests of suggestions may bring a preliminary award of $25 plus a supplementary award after the test period.

Suggestion blanks will he made available to county ployes. AFSers Bid City Goodbye American Field Service organization combined a farewell for the two young people, who spent the school year here as AFS students, with election of officers at a get- together in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Worden, 1711 Myra Ave. This is the last week in Janesville for the two AFSers, Wolfgang, Lamprecht, Nurnberg, Germany, who has lived with the LaVerne Yeadons while attending Parker High School this year; and Gregorio Camacho Valda, Antofagasla, Chile, whose host parents while he attended Parker were the Robert Pruehcrs, 908 Caroline St.

On Thursday, the two youths will report at Lake rally point for the AFS group which will tour the United States before returning home. Days since school ended have been spent in trips, camping and other activities. Officers of the AFS organization for the coming year will be Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Worden, presidents; Mrs.

Don Holloway, vice president; Mrs. Marshall Johnston, publicity chairman; E. J. Overton treasurer; Mrs. William Falder, home selection chairman; Mr.

and Mrs. Ralph Schlintz, Americans Abroad coordinator; Keigh Hubel and Sudad Baban, school liaison; and Holly Clark, student representative, The Wordons' son, Gavy, spent last summer in Kampala, Uganda, Africa, as part of the Americans Abroad project of the AFS program, usually associated with the name. Mrs. Maxson wouldn't hurt a bird for the world. The traps she places through the woods are of net, and she prefers the English mist net, built on fish linos and erected on poles.

The net traps can be from 15 to 30 feet long and 6 feet wide and they con- lain pockets into which the birds drop. Checks Hourly When Mrs. Maxson has her traps up, which is a good share of the time, she checks on them every hour so no bird will be kept away from its nest longer than that. After a bird has been trapped, Mrs. Maxson marks it with a numbered aluminum band and releases it unharmed.

Every bird she bands is recorded both for her home records and federal records. She watches with interest for "returns," birds she has banded, and "recoveries," those banded by other operators, Banding is not for everyone. A permit is required and Mrs. Maxson is one of about 2.000 persons in Wisconsin who holds such a permit, furnishing the statistics through which the Wisconsin Society for Ornithology makes its "bird census." The 152 species of birds Mrs. Maxson has banded through the 32 years is less than half the number that arrive in Wisconsin at one time or another, she says.

There are 325 species that come to this state and the number li increasing. Back in 1936, when she started banding, there were few cardinals in this area and now there are many of the lovely red birds. Many Attracted It's small wonder that many birds are attracted to the Maxson sanctuary. There they find 50 acres of woods in which there are 25,000 pines. This first pine plantation in the area was planted in 1931 by Mr.

Maxson and their three sons, Rolland, now of Mission Diejo, Keith, who is employed by the Gibbs Manufacturing and Research and Ken, who is golf pro manager at Janesville's two municipal golf courses, plus some of the friends the boys were able to talk into the job. Some of the pines are now 60 feet tall. And the trees are not the only attraction. Mrs. Maxson furnishes meals through the winter, mostly cracked corn and suet, and she puts out suet in the summer as well.

Back in the days when her husband and sons created the pine plantation, Mrs. Maxson started her wild flower gardens along the nature trails and today visitors can see more than 100 species of wild flowers, some very rare. Among them are many varieties of trillium, three kinds of lady slippers, spring beauties, many kinds of violets. Mrs. August Vollmar arranged the trip to the Max- Wedimday, Juno 26,1968 Jant)iviUo Daily 3 Sears Sewing Machine 3-DAY SALE (Gaieua Mrs.

R. H. Maxson, Clear Lake, shows grandchildren David and Misty Maxson how to band birds. sons' bird sanctuary this year, as she has for the past nine years. Playground children will go there by bus, leaving from Marshall Junior High School at 9 a.m.

row. The trip also will include stops at Storrs Lake, Carvers Rock and a rootbeer stand. The 350 playground children to which the Maxsons are hosts each year are not the only group to which Mrs. Max-' son has introduced the joys of the woods. Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, church groups, garden clubs and others have also visited the plantation.

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