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