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