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