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