Brent Pennington: Photographer

This feels like an appropriate photo for today, Thanksgiving Day, where denizens of the United States traditionally gather eat turkey together.  I don’t think I

From the same outing as my prior post, I also had an encounter with a Balitmore oriole.  Orioles are not uncommon in the area, but

I was birding at Nescopeck State Park over the summer, making my way on the path around the lake for the second time, when I

This osprey was at the edge of my lens range when I spotted him in a tree over the lake.  Although osprey are residents of

Wrapping up a kayak paddle midsummer, I was a bit disappointed at how little I had seen – not much aside from a turtle and

Mama wood duck and a gaggle of babies, living their best life in a quiet bay at the lake.  It’s amazing I was able to

So not exactly an airborne groundhog in the strictest sense, but the title was too good to pass up.  And this particular groundhog is likely

Early July saw the eastern bluebird family grown, with the fledglings nearly ready to depart.  I had been watching this family since they began nesting

It isn’t a pine warbler, but a warbler in a pine – a yellow warbler, by my identification, and possibly a juvenile male based on

A lucky capture while kayaking this summer – it’s a heavy crop, but still a reasonably good photo of a juvenile bald eagle.  There was

Encounters with cedar waxwings are always uplifting.  They are one of the first bird species I had the opportunity to work with as a burgeoning

Any patch of open land in proximity to water is fair game for the song sparrow throughout the summer.  Although they lack the vibrant colors

The gray catbird is a summer resident across all but the westernmost United States, and along the eastern coast it can be found year-round, south

BRENT PENNINGTON – A black-billed cuckoo preens in a tree at Lackawanna State Park, PA, on the morning of 05 June 2025. BRENT PENNINGTON –

BRENT PENNINGTON – An eastern phoebe with a caterpillar meal perches at Nescopeck State Park, PA, on the morning of 03 June 2025. BRENT PENNINGTON

The eastern towhee is a robin-sized bird, and a member of the sparrow family.  Their range spans the whole eastern United States; in the southern

Bird names are a fun subject all their own, ranging from fun and quirky to names that are flat-out wrong, and yet were kept regardless. 

Having a black & white warbler in a black & white image seemed appropriate, and stylistically it worked out, since the sun was directly behind

This isn’t an image I’d usually share – the warbler is looking away from the camera, and whether you’re photographing people or birds or bugs,

BRENT PENNINGTON – A chestnut-sided warbler forages for insects amid the scrub oak at the Eales Preserve on Moosic Mountain, near Scranton, PA, on the