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