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