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