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