Safe landing.

Australasian Harrier, Kahu is commonly seen flying over farmland through out NZ.

This mature bird has just landed to inspect a possum it has spied in farm paddock, Coast Rd Wainuiomata. NB. the legs have a interesting coverage of feathers that I have not seen in any other pictures or illustrations.

Dinner time

By now it is feeling safe and is about to start feeding.

A rather stringy bit

Eyes on the sky as other birds are also looking for food.

This was taken just before a younger Harrier landed featured in the next picture.

This young Harrier is notable for its dark brown colouring (body & eyes)

Looks delicious!!!

Australasian Harrier guarding it's food

Here we see two male Harriers fighting over who gets to eat first. This skirmish was over very quickly (2 sec).

This is serious!

The victor

This prize was too good to risk losing!