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