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