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