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Hunter changes sports to become avid bird counter


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By Carlos Alcalá, Sacramento Bee

Tim Fitzer is one busy bird counter.

During the Audubon Society’s annual Christmas counts this year, Fitzer is doing eight all-day counts in locations ranging from the Suisun marshes to the Sierra and from Lincoln down to Stockton.

Some folks last only half a day on counts, said Ed Harper, another prominent local birder. Three is the upper limit for most.

Eight? “That’s quite a few,” Harper said.

A single count – especially in areas where waterfowl gather – may turn up more than 80 species and tens of thousands of birds.

But Fitzer’s relationship with birds started with shooting, not counting.

Fitzer, the duck hunter, was sitting in a blind in the early 1970s when a common yellowthroat flew up beside him.

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