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