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