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