Tim Murphy reports this hawk rode a BC trolley from the Government Center loop to at least Arlington, where he snapped these photos, today, wonders if anybody had the heart to tell the hawk that BC is probably the wrong school for it.

State Police report a Roxbury woman standing in the breakdown lane of Rte. 3 north in Braintree after the driver of the RAV 4 she was in hit a deer in the right lane died when the driver of another vehicle swerved into the breakdown lane to avoid the stopped car and hit her early Sunday. Read more.

Bobby Boyd went for a walk along the Neponset River Greenway in Mattapan and Milton the other day. Among the things he saw was a snake resting in a tight space on the Milton end of the Harvest River Bridge, a goose of the non-Canada variety near that and a pair of deer on an islet in the river between Central Avenue and Capen Street. Read more.

Bonnie Rovics was at the Franklin Park Zoo the other day when she noticed one of our local turkeys had gotten into the pen where the ostriches live - and that when an ostrich came after it, it mounted a counter-attack.

Mary Ellen reports that she and Dolly the Dog came across four egg-laying turtles along the Charles River in Millennium Park in West Roxbury yesterday (and that she and Dolly kept a good distance and didn't linger so as not to stress them).

Caroline Barnes, who sells posters celebrating the angry turkeys of Brookline, reports that the town and the Brookline Art Makes Community are in receipt of their first shipment of oversized fiberglass turkeys, which local artists will paint and place around the town.

A roving UHub photographer stumbled across this scene in Tombstone, um, on Sacramento Street in Cambridge yesterday: Read more.

Roving UHub photographer Hope Cole spotted this turkey, no doubt hoping she can catch up with the Duck Boat at its next stop, near Science Park yesterday.

Mack Garvey reports Tobie the Turkey seems to have made a home along Tremont Street in Charlestown, near the Tobin Bridge. Read more.

Mary Ellen spotted a bunch of birds at Millennium Park yesterday, including this l'il plumper, otherwise known as a palm warbler.

And there's this common grackle, looking like something you wouldn't want to meet in a dark alley, or, well, anywhere else: Read more.