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drained. The Izaak Walton League and many other conservation 
bodies throughout the United States have risen in protest against this 
drainage project. They have asked Senator Medill McCormick to 
present to the next National Congress a bill authorizing the United 
States Government to set aside the islands and bottom lands as a 
National Reservation for recreational purposes. A word to your Sena- 
tor or Congressman will assure him of the course to follow. 
Trapping and Banding the Tree- 
Climbing Birds 
HERE is a way to trap everything if you can only figure it 
out. Trapping and banding the tree-climbing birds at first 
appeared to be a very difficult proposition. The moment the 
birds would strike any obstruction they would fly away; so we began to 
try a number of different schemes of forming ‘something around the 
tree so that as they climbed up the tree it would bring them into a 
trap. The only way one can be sure is to make an effort to place 
something and then watch and see how it affects the birds as they 
approach the trap. In the attempt to make a successful tree trap this 
one was changed from fif- 
teen to twenty-five times 
before we had one that was 
successful. Our first birds 
trapped were a few Brown 
Creepers, but when we at- 
tempted to take them out 
of the trap they escaped, 
until we finally found it was 
necessary to make arrange- 
ments so we could drive 
them into a receiving cage. 
Next, we were shocked and 
surprised to see the Brown 
Creepers go through 34- 
inch mesh wire. On cap- 
turing our first Creeper we 
found our Number One band 
would have to be lapped a 
Ashe’ : ? wee) «little bit so that they could 
Photo by Wm. I. Lyon not slip their long, slim foot 
TREE TRAP through the band. 




