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Ladybugspicnic
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Running. Bikes. Birds. Urban Things.
Photo credit to Jason Tang (The Canadian Press).
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"But worse fate will await people at the coasts everywhere if the world keeps burning fossil fuels- less than two versus eight feet of sea level rise within a lifetime. The first situation might just be manageable. The other will surely be catastrophic."
#BanFossilFuels
#CallMeAlarmist
Highlighted text reads: But worse fate will await people at the coasts everywhere if the world keeps burning fossil fuels- less than two verses right feet of sea level rise within a lifetime. The first situation might just be manageable. The other will surely be catastrophic.
November 27, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Duck waddles. 🥰
#SeenOnMyRun
#Bird
November 26, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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That's some sticky snow.

#SeenOnMyRun
Weeping willow tree in the falling snow
November 23, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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Ice fog. 🥰
(Or hoar frost. Tbh I have read the diff a million times but I can't tell when I see it. It was foggy but it has more to do with how things freeze. Either way, it's all beautiful and why I love winter running, and why you're getting 4 pics instead of 1 today).

#SeenOnMyRun
Sunflower covered in frost and ice with Dow's lake in the background. Fog over Dow's lake while geese fly by. Trees covered in feathery ice. A willow tree covered in feathery white ice.
November 20, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Just me and the birds this morning for #5amRunClub.
Well, me and the little "how about we try some speed work??" demon.
Go away pal. We're not ready yet...

#SeenOnMyRun
Rideau canal pathway in the dark. One light is out.
November 18, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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November.
When you suddenly find your face being pummeled by icy shards in the headwind.

#SeenOnMyRun
Grey sky with a few clouds over Dow's lake looks south east.
November 16, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Lots of mallards passing through right now.
They're incredibly common here, but I never tire of the orange feet. 🥰
#DuckOutOfWater
Mallards standing along the edge of the Rideau canal.
November 14, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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For some reason when I see handsome ducks I think of Tom Kitten and the puddle ducks who get dressed in the kittens' clothes.
Screenshot of Beatrix Potter's Tom Kitten.
November 14, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Do you think ducks have a sense of how handsome they are?

#SeenOnMyRun
A redhead ducks floating in the water.
November 14, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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As per tradition, one must run in the first snowfall as a signal that you just keep running....
Squeezed this in between coats of paint...
#SeenOnMyRun
Snowflakes falling in the arboretum
November 10, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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Perfectly November out there.

#SeenOnMyRun
Three hooded mergansers swim in the Rideau canal. Rideau canal pathway with fallen orange and red tree leaves.
November 7, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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I thought he was just some foliage at first and my eyes were playing tricks on me. This guy was hiding just up from Hartwell.
A heron standing in the mud.
November 7, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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I am guessing this may be my last #SpotTheHeron of the year?

#bird #SeenOnMyRide
A great blue heron stands on the wet canal sludge while their feathers blow in the wind.
November 6, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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Sorry haters, I love the time change.

#SeenOnMyRun
Sunrise over Dow's lake. Plenty of geese and gulls in the shadowy foreground.
November 4, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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My kid sending me #CrowNoCrow pictures on his walk to school. 🥰

#bird
Picture of a black bird on a light post. Purposely not identifying if it's a crow or not.
November 3, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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I will never get over the size of great black backed gulls. 😍

#SeenOnMyRun #birds
Great black backed gull stands in the water at Dow's lake surrounded by ring billed gulls, mallards, and geese.
November 2, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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We're this house:
Close up of a Halloween kiss.
October 31, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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Lots of rain and wind means leaf carpets.

#SeenOnMyRun
Maple leaves cover the pathway.
October 30, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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Good morning Orion.
Good morning geese.
#SeenOnMyRun
Picture of the constellation orion First bit of light in the sky behind Dow's lake, with speckles of birds in the dark.
October 28, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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Funny little weirdos* are back in packs doing their hilarious head bobbing. Highly entertaining and the show is free at Dow's lake for the next couple of weeks. ;) Come for the head bobs, stay for the mallard quacks and chitter-chatter and geese flybys.

*Hooded mergansers

#SeenOnMyRun #birds
Five hooded mergansers swimming by a Dow's lake. A Canada Goose flyby with the fall leaves in the background.
October 26, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Causeway is back.
And I'm up to THIRTY WHOLE MINUTES OF RUNNING. 🥳🫠😭😑
Of course I said it out loud so, time for another set back. 💁‍♀️
#SeenOnMyRun
Geese and gulls standing in the remnants of the Causeway across Dow's lake.
October 23, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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Good morning geese.

#SeenOnMyRun
Dow's lake in the early morning with no lights yet, geese and gulls napping.
October 21, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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My kid, aged 6, next to this "farm truck"...parked in the lot of the university aquatics center.
Small child stands with his face covered by his hands next to an oversized jacked up truck.
October 17, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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Among the endless geese and mallards, this morning I spotted my first hooded mergansers passing through on their fall migration.
Welcome back you funny little birbs.
#SeenOnMyRun
#birds
October 16, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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Screenshot of the painting The Scream By Kent Monkman. Pictures depict a Jesuit taking an Indigenous child from their mother. The mother is being held back by a Canadian Mountie.
October 15, 2025 at 6:13 PM