Birding While Arting (Part 3) May 17, 2026

 As I said in a Sunday post about nine months ago ” My friend Donald and I have been ‘arting’ about once a week in the museums and galleries of NYC for the past two years. I thought I had made up the word ‘arting’ but recently searched its roots. It turns out the term ‘arting’ is not a standard English word, but it is sometimes used to refer to the act of creating art, or the process of using art to understand oneself and the world. Anyhow, it’s a good word and serves our purposes. From the beginning, whenever I saw a bird in a work of art, I would text that photo to one of my bird nerd friends. There is never any context in the text – I just send it to her. Sometimes she responds and other times she laughingly asks if I can buy it for her.” So today’s montage once again features a number of these birds we saw while arting. This was a fun montage to put together. Hope you enjoy today’s beautiful birds.