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