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