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