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