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