Hoover Creek Road/Hoover Creek Reservoir
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Location
Take Hwy 19 north out of Fossil for about 1 mile and look for Hoover Creek as it crosses under the road. About a mile and a half farther, you will see Hoover Cr. Road. Take this road about 1.8 miles and you will see a large pond on your right after a farm house. This is Hoover Reservoir (45.029097, -120.185863) Hoover Creek Road/Hoover Creek Reservoir This body of water is on private land so please bird from the road.
DirectionsHabitat and Birds
The riparian area along the creek is good for migrants or the occasional Spotted Towhee. Listen for Pinyon Jays along Hoover Creek Road. Hoover Creek Reservoir can have just about any kind of waterfowl on it.
Nearby Birding Locations
- Priest Hole
- Robinson Canyon - Pine Creek Conservation Area
- Cottonwood Creek Road
- Shelton Wayside Park
- Rowe Creek Reservoir
- Winlock Road
- Bear Hollow
- Fossil Sewage Ponds
- Fossil (Town)
- Butte Creek Summit
- Muleshoe Recreation Area
- Bear Hollow County Park
- Girds Creek Road
- Umatilla National Forest
- Service Creek
- Twickenham Area
- Clarno Road
- Kahler Basin Road
- Shady Grove Rest Area
- Butte Creek Road
- Fossil Sewage Ponds - Farm Pond
- John Day Fossil Beds National Monument - Clarno Unit
- Hancock Field Station
- Burnt Ranch Campground
- Julia Henderson Pioneer Park
- Spray (Town)
- Clarno BLM Boat Ramp
- Rowe Creek Road
- Pine Creek Conservation Area
- Kimberly Area
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