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