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