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