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