Butte Creek Road
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Location
Location: From Fossil, take Hwy 19 NW until you leave town. Just a short distance from town are two ponds that are raised above the road on the left side of the road. Between the two ponds is Butte Creek Road.
DirectionsHabitat and Birds
Habitat and Birds: Take this road as long as you like as it winds through farmland, sage flats and canyons. It follows Butte Creek so there are many riparian opportunities here. Birds here include geese, mallards, Common Merganser, Great Horned Owls, raptors, Chukar, Canyon and Rock Wrens, Cliff Swallows, corvids, and hard-to-find-in-the-county Black-capped Chickadee. A Brown Thrasher was found once. A Western Screech-owl was predictable years ago.
Nearby Birding Locations
- Cottonwood Creek Road
- Muleshoe Recreation Area
- Twickenham Area
- Robinson Canyon - Pine Creek Conservation Area
- Kahler Basin Road
- Rowe Creek Road
- Hancock Field Station
- Bear Hollow County Park
- Kimberly Area
- Bear Hollow
- Fossil Sewage Ponds - Farm Pond
- Service Creek
- Priest Hole
- Girds Creek Road
- Pine Creek Conservation Area
- Spray (Town)
- Shady Grove Rest Area
- John Day Fossil Beds National Monument - Clarno Unit
- Julia Henderson Pioneer Park
- Burnt Ranch Campground
- Butte Creek Summit
- Fossil Sewage Ponds
- Clarno BLM Boat Ramp
- Hoover Creek Road/Hoover Creek Reservoir
- Fossil (Town)
- Clarno Road
- Umatilla National Forest
- Winlock Road
- Rowe Creek Reservoir
- Shelton Wayside Park
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