Dec 31, 2021: A Year in the Life of Ada Hayden Heritage Park (in 193 Photos!)

The 2021 yearly AHHP collage made up of all 193 photos.
See each month individually individually here.

Thanks to everyone who continue to contribute to the blog!  We have had more than 417,750 pageviews on the blog since we started at the very end of 2011 (55,750 in 2021!) and many, many more at our Facebook page:  https://www.facebook.com/FriendsOfAdaHaydenHeritagePark
Kevin Kane, Reflections of Ada Hayden Heritage Park Blog Editor.

Thanks to the following photo and video contributors this year:
Wolf. Oesterreich
Kevin Kane
Tana Tesdall
Kelly Poole
Tonya Moore
Paul Domoto
Nancy Franz
Thomas Meyer
Sushma Poudel
K. Christian Johnson
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Dec 30, 2021: December 2021 AHHP Photo Collage

December 2021 photos from the blog by Wolf. Oesterreich, Kevin Kane, and Thomas Meyer.

Dec 29, 2021: Bottoms Up!

These male Mallards are feeding.  Dabbling ducks feed from the surface of the waters. (Wolf. Oesterreich, 12/25/21)

Dec 27, 2021: 10th Anniversary of Reflections

On this day in 2011 I published this first photo on the new "Reflections of Ada Hayden Park" blog. Friends of Ada Hayden Heritage Park has now published 3,065 photos of daily park activity! (Kevin Kane, 12/27/2011)

Dec 25, 2021: December Hues

The last bit of sunlight reflects onto the clouds and surface of the south lake creating a colorful background for the feeding mallards. (Kevin Kane, 12/26/21)

Dec 23, 2021: View of a Past December

A 2015 view looking west-southwest over Jensen Pond before the Farmstead was demolished to make way for the Hayden's Crossing development. (Kevin Kane, 12/12/15)

Dec 21, 2021: Rainbow Trout on Ice

I was quite surprised to find a Rainbow Trout flipping about on the south lake ice.  How this fish got onto the ice is unknown.  Two possibilities: A raptor (such as a Bald Eagle) may have accidentally dropped its catch, or 2) the fish may have misjudged a jump out of the water (too close to the ice). (Wolf. Oesterreich, 12/21/21)

Dec 19, 2021: Nature's Holiday Decorating

Like lights on a tree, the droplets formed by a foggy morning mist cling to the red dogwood branches. (Kevin Kane, 12/2/12)

Dec 17, 2021: Colorful Sunrise

Colors of a pre-sunrise.  Looking SE across the south lake from the NW corner of the west bay. (Wolf. Oesterreich, 12/14/21)