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