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. Black-backed Woodpecker – sense a theme here? — May 16, 2012
  2. California Quail of the Bitterroot Valley — May 16, 2012
  3. Cassin’s Vireo from Mount Sentinel — May 15, 2012
  4. Western Skink…well worth the wait — May 14, 2012
  5. 4 First of the Years today — May 6, 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

Apr 05 2012

Return of the Ospreys – Past and Present

Each spring, I await the return of one particular raptor with particular anticipation, the Osprey. Always around the first of April when the ice has disappeared, they re-appear to their platform nests that sit atop numerous snags along the rivers and lakes of western Montana. All at once, there seems to be a pair occupying every available …

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Apr 05 2012

Sometimes they are not as cooperative

Green-winged Teals always seem to be eating, and their heads always are buried in the muck or underwater. At least these guys lined up in a pleasing manner.

Apr 01 2012

April Fool’s in Avian Form

American Coots are just plain goofy. They swim and feed like ducks, and yet, they are a rail (that’s right I said it). Coots, actually, look a lot like a chicken,a frickin’ swimming chicken with a large white bill. They have lobate feet, which means that each toe has lobes of skin surrounding the digit, …

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Mar 29 2012

Colors come to the Spring

Each spring, we fade from the muted tones of late winter into the extravagant colors of life in abundance. Those colors come in no more greater illustration than the drake Wood Duck. These creatures of fantastic dreams have started to populated the sloughs and backwaters of the Bitterroot and Clark Fork Rivers.

Mar 26 2012

First herp of the 2012: Western Painted Turtle

During a quick drive through visit of Lee Metcalf National Wildlife Refuge, I spied a couple of new brown bumps on a log that I have looked at dozens of times. The brown bumps turned out to be a couple of Western Painted Turtles, my fist herps of 2012. This is the first time that …

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Mar 26 2012

Despite the gloom, it is Freezeout

The fog froze in layers to the antenna and windshield as Freezeout Lake came into view, and a a flock of 200 Snow Geese cross overhead. These were the last Snow Geese that we would see for the next couple of hours. The weather man completely lied. His prediction of mid-50s with sunny skies had …

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Mar 23 2012

Cattail Raccoons

Spent some time with a family of 5 Northern Raccoons at Lee Metcalf NWR. They were foraging on newly emergent cattail shoots, and they fed no more than 10 yards from me for the better part of 1/2 an hour. Quite an experience. After they were done feeding, they swam across the pond, and slipped …

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Mar 21 2012

Garbage Dump Gulls at the Flathead Gullery

As I cleaned my over-flowing edited images folder from the past few months, I came across a series of photos from an afternoon spent with the gulls from the lovely Flathead County Sanitary Landfill or as we call it, the Flathead Gullery. Ok, it’s a dump, it stinks, it looks apocalyptic, and the gulls love …

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Mar 20 2012

The Buteo that hovers – the Rough-legged Hawk

As sightings of Rough-legged Hawks become fewer and further between, I have been reviewing this past winter’s images, and I notice a series of images of hawk hovering. Rough-legged Hawks are our only buteo that regularly hovers. In fact, the only other North American raptors that regularly hover are the Osprey and the collective kites. Hovering is …

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Mar 19 2012

Pygmy Nuthatch Addendum

Just when I thought that I had the most photogenic Pygmy Nuthatch, this happens.

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