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In this Friday photo, Filly, a 2 1/2-year-old border collie, gets attention from her master, Bob Hood, maintenance supervisor at the airport after scaring birds from the runway in North Bend, Ore. Filly works at the Southwest Oregon Regional Airport in North Bend, clearing birds from the runway. A job made for her. On the ride to the runway in the truck she ran back and forth and made sounds as if to say, lets get to work. (AP Photo/The World, Madeline Steege)
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Escapee on May 12 at 9:51 p.m.
…and the ocean’s right out there, about a mile away, just on the other side of that strip of land in the background…