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