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