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
- Fossil (Town)
- Bear Hollow
- Umatilla National Forest
- Shady Grove Rest Area
- Robinson Canyon - Pine Creek Conservation Area
- Pine Creek Conservation Area
- Julia Henderson Pioneer Park
- Shelton Wayside Park
- Twickenham Area
- Clarno Road
- Burnt Ranch Campground
- Winlock Road
- Hancock Field Station
- John Day Fossil Beds National Monument - Clarno Unit
- Spray (Town)
- Fossil Sewage Ponds - Farm Pond
- Priest Hole
- Clarno BLM Boat Ramp
- Kahler Basin Road
- Butte Creek Summit
- Hoover Creek Road/Hoover Creek Reservoir
- Girds Creek Road
- Service Creek
- Kimberly Area
- Bear Hollow County Park
- Rowe Creek Reservoir
- Fossil Sewage Ponds
- Rowe Creek Road
- Cottonwood Creek Road
- Muleshoe Recreation Area
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