Radd Icenoggle

Author's details

Name: Radd Icenoggle
Date registered: May 11, 2008
URL: http://www.radleyice.com

Biography

Radd Icenoggle is a native Montanan, who has spent a lifetime as an outdoors and wildlife enthusiast. He possesses a degree in biology with an emphasis on habitat relations. During his studies, he wrote a thesis that explored the effects of slope aspect on communities in southwestern Montana and, more specifically, the ways that Clark’s Nutcrackers use their habitat. He has worked for the U.S. Forest Service as a botanist, bird biologist, and hydrology technician. Through his writing and photography, he endeavors to bring nature to his audience.

Latest posts

  1. Cackling Goose at Lee Metcalf — February 2, 2012
  2. Above the surface of the heavier music of the water — January 30, 2012
  3. Waxwing ID Workshop — January 26, 2012
  4. Review: Petrels, Albatrosses & Storm-Petrels of North America — January 26, 2012
  5. Review: The Atlas of Birds — January 23, 2012

Most commented posts

  1. Ivory-billed Woodpecker or bust — 8 comments
  2. Sometimes cold is cool — 6 comments
  3. 2012: The Year of the Invasion — 6 comments
  4. Brewing the Northern Lights Juniper Rye PA — 4 comments
  5. What an incredible Wood Duck day — 3 comments

Author's posts listings

Feb
02
2012

Cackling Goose at Lee Metcalf

During an afternoon visit, I observed a single Cackling Goose (Branta hutchinsii) in with the Canada Geese (Branta canadensis) on the ice at the north end of the pond nearest to the Visitor’s Center. The goose in question was apparently half the size of the surrounding Moffitt’s Canada Geese (B.c. moffitti). The bird possessed a …

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Jan
30
2012

Above the surface of the heavier music of the water

The Ouzel never sings in chorus with other birds, nor with his kind, but only with the streams. And like flowers that bloom beneath the surface of the ground, some of our favorite’s best song-blossoms never rise above the surface of the heavier music of the water. – John Muir from The Mountains of California …

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Jan
26
2012

Waxwing ID Workshop

Fruits were ripped from their stems as the ravenous flock worked to clean this tree. Sharp, hooked bills spear the red flesh as more waxwings pile into the tangle of branches. The composite flock of ~300 birds was predominately (95%) Bohemian Waxwings and the reminder were Cedar Waxwings. The game was to pick out the occasional Cedar …

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Jan
26
2012

Review: Petrels, Albatrosses & Storm-Petrels of North America

Here in Montana, petrels and albatrosses are not usually on the birding radar. Their foreignness and distance have only served to intrigue me. I imagine a giant albatross dynamically soaring amongst of crowns and troughs of mid-ocean swells. I can almost feel the salt-laden mist needling at my face. Heck, I might even be a …

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Jan
23
2012

Review: The Atlas of Birds

I rushed into the Lolo post office to receive a parcel from Princeton University Press. It was my review copy of The Atlas of Birds: Diversity, Behavior, and Conservation. I raced home and tore open the box, and fished the text from a sea of packing peanuts. The first thing that leapt out at me …

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Jan
20
2012

2012: The Year of the Invasion

2012 has been the year of the invasion. An invasion of normally arctic-dwelling bird species has descended upon the northern tier of the United States. There have been upwards of 50-60 separate Snowy Owl observations in the state of Montana. The causes for the invasion are, most likely, due to a couple of synergistic factors: the …

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Jan
20
2012

Mission for Snowy Owls

Before I could bear to watch the Green Bay Packers lose to the Giants, Tom and I went up into the Mission Valley on a Snowy Owl mission. We initially checked around the Ninepipe National Wildlife Refuge and the surrounding agricultural lands, and we turned up nada. No Snowy Owls or much else, other than …

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Jan
11
2012

What is the Noble Eightfold Path

Most simply put the Noble Eightfold Path is the course of actions as prescribed by the Buddha that leads to cessation of suffering and the achievement of liberation. Divisions and Factors of the Noble Eightfold Path Before we tackled the particulars of the Noble Eightfold Path, we need to have a basic understanding of the …

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Jan
05
2012

The warm weather continues

45 degrees in january…January! That’s how warm it has been in northwestern Montana lately. The birds were appropriately enjoying the sun. All 3 species of nuthatch were actively calling and feeding in the ponderosa pines and cottonwoods as Northern Flickers both called and drummed. Common Goldeneye and Hooded Merganser were all displaying as well. Everything must have …

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Jan
04
2012

Chasing Ghosts

I heard the Pileated Woodpecker vocalizing with its fast series of “wuk” notes. Went to that location, and he (I’m assuming a male here) was nowhere to be found. Then, I would hear the bird farther down, some 200 meters or so. This pattern repeat several times, and I decided that Pileateds are nothing more than malevolent ghosts…they do …

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