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