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