I assume this is the same pair of Cackling Geese that have shown up at Shelby Farms for the past few years to over winter. Their size, shape and coloration of the breast pretty much settles them into the hutchinsii or the Richardson's goose variety of Cackling Goose.

The Cackling Goose was recently split from the white-faced complex of geese and Richardson's is the far more likely sub-species to appear in our area.