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