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