Kites Preying on Pigeon

Over the weekend I spotted two black kites sitting together, I thought this to be "rare" occurrence and decided to take some snaps. On closer observation I noticed that the two black kites were having lunch - a blue rock pigeon - much to my excitement! Here are a couple of snaps:



Is this behavior normal? I don't know if the kites hunted down the pigeon or if the pigeon had died due to natural causes. However, a number of pigeons that used to perch on nearby ledges seem to have drastically come down after this event.

This behavior does seem to be normal - based on posts to this query on bngbirds. Similar behavior of kites preying on pigeons have been observed in near Bull Temple in Bangalore and in Jodhpur. Thanks to all who responded to this post on bngbirds.