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