Why Does This Goose Cross Hamilton Avenue?

*Updated April 1, 2:48 p.m.

Canadian Geese are a regular sight all over Campbell--at John D. Morgan Park and along the Los Gatos Creek Trail. This lone goose, however, has chosen a much busier place to call home.

Campbell resident Carla Moreno contacted Campbell Patch this morning to ask for help with a curious visitor at her Legacy Tower home.

"He's been coming by for a few weeks now and I see the security guard chase him off toward Hamilton Avenue," Moreno says. "It just wobbles, takes his time going across Hamilton Avenue. I've had to stop to let him pass and today, I saw someone come pretty close to hitting it and honked its horn."

Her buildings are at the corner of Hamilton Avenue and Creekside Way and house two fountains that have enticed the goose to keep coming back.

"He's probably just lost," Moreno says." He's alone and totally confused. I think he's probably wandered over from the Los Gatos Creek Trail, but I'm not sure where he goes when he crosses the street."

The city of Campbell's Service Yard receptionist Diana Johnson confirmed that neither the city or the Silicon Valley Animal Control Authority, which services the city of Campbell, Monte Sereno, Mountain View and Santa Clara, could help in this situation because the goose was not hurt.

"If we catch them, they can become violent, and they can just come back," Johnson says.

The city of Campbell has done other things to help birds in the past, she says.

"On Wincheter, we had a family of birds crossing so we put signs up but as far as catching the animals, there's really nothing we can do," she said.

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