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