I was watching the two kōtare from the front door when one of them looked down at the driveway and suddenly swooped. It landed in front of a startled female blackbird that was busy smashing a snail in its shell, stole the snail from the blackbird and flew back into the tree where it finished the job of smashing the shell away before swallowing the snail. Meanwhile the blackbird stood there, with the best bird impression of "WTF?" I've seen. #TheftFromAbove #birds #nzbirds #kōtare