Since it seems like many people may be holed up at home this weekend trying to stay out of Hurricane Irene鈥檚 way, here鈥檚 some beautiful bird art to get you through (if you still have electricity). It鈥檚 our third installment of Birds Make the Art. Click here for and .
Cartoons by Tom Toro
 鈥淢y weight in nectar, on the rocks.鈥 |
 鈥淚鈥檓 totally serious. Babies come from a stork.鈥 |
 鈥淚鈥檒l play dead, and then after we get off work early, you guys set me free. Deal?鈥 |
Tom Toro is a 29-year-old New Yorker cartoonist and fiction writer living in Berkeley, California. See his New Yorker cartoons online .
Paintings by Josh Durant
 Ibis |
 Eagle |
 Blue jay |
 American kestrel |
Self-taught painter Joshua Durant has been actively working and showing his paintings since 2004. Find out more about him and his work and .
Artwork by Dinuk Magammana
 Bald eagle, acrylic |
 King eider, watercolor |
 Townsend鈥檚 warbler, watercolor |
Twenty-year-old Dinuk Magammana loves nature and wildlife. He鈥檚 been drawing and painting it since he was young.