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