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