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