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