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