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