DISPATCHES
A heron, possibly the west-pier heron of mid-April, was seen at the upper bend in the small hours of Saturday. Identification is by no means certain. The question of the heron is now three weeks old and showing no sign of closing.
FROM THE POND
May Day was kept beneath the Old Willow on Friday. Forty waterfowl, two dragonflies, the frog, and one coot who was not the Channel Sprint coot. The dabchicks supplied the only disturbance, by denying they were disturbed.
DISPATCHES
Thursday's reconvened Reed-Bed Subcommittee settled nothing. Drake Halford's census reached a second formal deferral, three filings have now gone missing or astray, and the coot's pebble appeared for the fourth time.
FEATURES
The long-resident frog of the southern waters granted a brief audience beneath the willows. Agreed at a quarter hour, it ran to nearly two, and this paper records it with more feeling than it expected to bring.
FROM THE POND
Tuesday's resumed inspection produced an identification at last. The north-shore object is a section of waterlogged sycamore branch. This paper sets the conclusion down with such restraint as the conclusion permits.
DISPATCHES
Monday's inspection of the north-shore object ran all morning under the Warden, the deputy, the Clerk, and a crowd of thirty or possibly more. Measurements were taken. Theories were aired. Nothing was concluded.
LETTERS
A second postbag: the deputy disputes her own rescue, the frog clarifies that an observation is not a position, the dabchicks are not unsettled for the third week running, and one theory is held back on the Clerk's advice.