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No clue if this is the downtown turkey, or just some fly-in from Brookline (although it doesn't seem particularly mean), but here's a turkey at the New England Conservatory off Huntington Avenue in the Fenway on Tuesday (note to conservatory students: flip your phone 90 degrees when taking videos of fast-moving fowl).

Video: Deer vs. coyotes in Gloucester, deer wins!

H/t Julia Spitz for the headline.

Jpilz spotted the downtown turkey setting up housekeeping on a ledge at Rowes Wharf this evening. If only it were a duck, it could get a room and put it on its bill.

Speaking of the turkey, there's a move to name the turkey. Given the bird appeared just as the mayor was announcing his departure, how about Tom?

Earlier:
Turkey continues to stick neck out in downtown Boston.
As God is my witness, I though turkeys could fly!

Redsox223 watched a rare Super Guppy come in for a landing at Hanscom yesterday.

Copyright Redsox223. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.

High turkey.

Turns out Mr. Carlson was right. Although it's a bit hard to tell in Dave's photo, that's a live turkey on a fifth-floor ledge at 133 Federal St. in the Financial District this morning.

UPDATE: A turkey was spotted today on Boylston Street near Tremont (and here it is trying to get into City Place - if only it had opposable thumbs). Another was seen in Chinatown. Have urban turkeys come home to roost or do we just have one visiting bird taking in the town?

A roving UHub photographer reports he watched young dude sitting on a D trolley between Kenmore and Hynes tonight as an old guy with a cane stood and struggled to stay upright:

Unbelievable. Man was clearly having trouble maintaining his balance while the trolley moved. The man even said: "I really need to sit down."

The folks at the Boston City Archives wonder if you can figure out who these boys are, what they were doing and when they were doing it. See it larger.

Flooding on Inman at Broadway. Photo by Aaron Cohen.

Aaron Cohen and Brian D'Amico report a water-main break is causing some major flooding on Inman Street at Broadway, so best to avoid the area.

The Boston City Archives posted this photo of BFD fire dogs lining up for some serious chow back in the 1940s.

A fed-up citizen reports from the South End:

Unshoveled sidewalk at 15 Union Park Street. St. John the Baptist Church, once again ignoring one of the ten commandments of urban life..."Thou Shalt Shovel Thy Sidewalk".

If only there were some way the city could help.

Ambulance. Photo by John Keith.

John Keith and Katie Kelly report a Boston ambulance and another vehicle collided around 1:15 p.m., sending the ambulance hurtling into the shrubbery in front of an apartment building. Kennedy reports both vehicles were pretty banged up, but nobody seemed injured.

At 8:54 a.m., Rebecca, who took this photo, reported she'd been standing at the Sutherland Road Green Line stop for more than 20 minutes, and that she was a mere newcomer there - she could still feel her feet.

At the very same time, Katherine Delaney posted a photo showing things were almost as bad on the Red Line - even more crowded, but at least a train was running.

This comes the day after T General Manager Beverly Scott said she's giving serious consideration to fare hikes of up to 33% and delaying needed maintenance starting July 1.

Leslie Jones took lots of photos of Boston things covered in ice, such as firetrucks, but especially fishing boats, such as this trawler in 1938.

Posted under this Creative Commons license.

Roving UHub photographer Jed Hresko spotted this snowman taking shelter this morning at Laviscount Park on Humboldt Avenue in Roxbury.

Enoch Pratt noticed this sign outside a South Boston church on Sunday.

Arturo Gossage took lots of photos at the St. Patrick's Day parade today, including this fancy ride.

Copyright Arturo Gossage. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.

Roving UHub photographer Noah Sachs stopped in at Whiskey Priest today and captured this Irish Viking having a Guinness.

Turlach MacDonagh wonders: Why were happy green people carrying a big log down Beacon Street in Brookline this morning?

UPDATE: Looks like it's this thing where people undergo a simulated special-forces training run. H/t Matt D.

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The folks at the Boston City Archives have posted this photo of a Boston St. Patrick's Day lunch in 1960. Whom can you identify? See it larger.

This was the tragic scene at the armored Best Buy machine at Forest Hills Sunday afternoon. Joe D., who came up with the headline, reports it was still like that this morning. Aaron Gallo, meanwhile, discovered the same problem at Back Bay.

The original Boston Five Cent Savings Bank building, along School and Province streets in Downtown Crossing, is decorated with a riot of ancient symbols, from Babylonian winged lions and Roman bucrania to these kissing sea serpents.

Also see:
Municipal bucrania in Hyde Park.

Protest outside Longy School of Music this morning.

The venerable Longy School of Music, which merged with Bard College in New York last year, told parents this week that programs for children - and adults not seeking degrees - no longer fit its new mission of becoming a world-class "institution for advanced musical study." So, school President Karen Zorn wrote parents, they'll have to find new places to send their kids for the sort of programs the school has long offered.

In a letter to parents, Zorn said the school would work with them to find alternate programs.

Parents, who say the decision came as a complete surprise to them, protested outside the Harvard Square conservatory this morning. One Jamaica Plain mother tells UHub:

What they offer simply can't be replicated by private instruction or at other local institutions - otherwise we might be studying elsewhere. For example we live in JP but take our 12 year old daughter there for a chorus ensemble every weekend, because the hassle is worth the great experience she is having.

Kostian drove into the sunset on Western Avenue in Allston today.

Kyle W. Kerr enjoyed watching all the bicyclists in the snow this morning as he waited for the bus on Brighton Avenue in Allston.

H Boston photographs the latest opus at Sav-Mor Liquors in Medford.

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