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Free Housing in New York City

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Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, Queens, NY, April 2010 Everyone knows that New York City is an extremely expensive place to live. If one is lucky enough to find a place that one likes one must often pay in rent per month what would easily be a mortgage payment in a more sane part of the country.

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The Queens List Won’t Stop Growing

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Queens, the finest borough in New York City, as I may have mentioned before, is where I have now seen a whopping 279 species! It was hunting around the edges of the West Pond of Jamaica Bay back at the beginning of March, a day that I saw both the individual in Queens and one in Brooklyn. Snow Bunting – Yes!

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New York State Big Year?

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I first met Anthony Collerton when he was trying to see the Barrow’s Goldeneye at Jamaica Bay back in February. That made me wonder why someone would put so much energy into a species that is regular in New York and not a lifer. It really depends on where the strays and vagrants show up in the second half of the year.

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Our Best Birds of 2020

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Redgannet, you’ll have to come visit New York City sometime soon. But in 2020, with all my travel plans cancelled and pretty much everything shut down, I wasn’t straying too far from Albany, New York for birding. I’m sure once we get a vaccine that I can show you something better than a Black Kite !

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