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