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