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