Banded Alaskan Dusky Geese moving North this week

I clicked these photos yesterday in Central Saanich  and counted 5 of these beautiful Canada Geese subspecies with red neck bands and leg bands.   They winter in Oregon and return each spring to the Copper River delta in South Central  Alaska and Prince William Sound.  They are  known as one of the smallest subspecies of goose populations in North America!   Strikingly beautiful chocolate brown birds that tend to stop off on the Peninsula in Fall and Spring.