The Final Stages Of Flight

I took this set of photos today on our last day of our post-Christmas vacation in Morro Bay.  I suppose these are not the first birds that ended up in the sand but it certainly is the first time I noticed them.  Walking around Morro Rock for about a half hour this morning, I found these images very much part of the natural process of life.  The sand in the beach around Morro Rock is the finest I've seen in California and it forms a nice contrast to the bodies of birds in various stages of decay.