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