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