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