Snow Geese in Spring

http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid1509319618?bctid=18428658001

This is what happens when you wake up at 4:30 in the morning, after only about 5 hours of sleep:

• You actually do something that sort of resembles YOGA, although calling it that seems like shouting somehow, and shouting is not an option seeing as all the world is asleep, dreaming, and as you have a very nice downstairs neighbor.
• You take a long shower.
• Shave your legs (if you're a girl or a guy who likes smooth legs, I guess.)
• You hit the switch of the coffee machine because you prepped it last night.
• Then you eat leftover Sunday breakfast, omelette, bacon, and some toast.
• Working your way methodically through 3 cups of coffee, and facing the blue glow of the computer screen, you start checking out video from the Seattle Times.

This leads you to Snow Geese. Massive bird migration and honking sound of hundreds. What combination is that racket: an A, a G, a C? Add a T and you get nucleobases, the stuff of DNA and RNA.

From my favorite Wikipedia: "Nucleobases (or nucleotide bases) are the parts of DNA and RNA that may be involved in pairing (see also base pairs). The main ones are cytosine, guanine, adenine (DNA and RNA), thymine (DNA) and uracil (RNA), abbreviated as C, G, A, T, and U, respectively. They are usually simply called bases in genetics. Because A, G, C, and T appear in the DNA, these molecules are called DNA-bases; A, G, C, and U are called RNA-bases."

Is it just genetics, a series of base pairs, a series of notes in all cells, that prompts those birds to take flight en mass? They are like schools of fishes in the air, a whirling dervish of wings, and a mess noise and bird poop (apparently green, don't you know.)

It's spring, perhaps why I'm awake way too early, but inexplicably thinking of winter, ice, firey nights, and Siberian Snow Geese.