On 21st September 2019, along with about ten other birders, I recorded a second-calendar-year male Pallid Harrier Circus macrourus carrying a passerine (probably a Skylark Alauda arvensis) in the Biebrza Basin near ?oje Awissa (northeast Poland). As the harrier flew past our group, a Hooded Crow Corvus cornix began pestering it (plate 001); this behaviour continued for 1–2 minutes until the harrier dropped its catch and the crow took it. Although this behaviour is widely known and documented among corvids (e.g. Vogrin 2017, Zaremba et al. 2019), there are very few documented cases of kleptoparasitism where a Pallid Harrier was the target (e.g. Combridge & Combridge 2008, Buij 2012).