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