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