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