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