Red Tail Hawk And Peregrine Falcon Spotted In Aerial Battle Over Roosevelt Island

The Roosevelt Island Twitterverse reports:

I’ve see the falcon on the 59st bridge #rooseveltisland towers a few times this week. Territorial behav today. Maybe a nest this spring?
Sara Kross (@sara_kross) January 3, 2015

Just watched an aerial battle btwn a peregrine falcon and red tailed hawk in the skies above #rooseveltisland + #manhattan #urbanwildlife
Sara Kross (@sara_kross) January 3, 2015

This hawk was spotted last November 14

Image From Rossana Ceruzzi lunching on a rat at the West (Eleanor’s) Pier

and here’s another Roosevelt Island hawk sighting

at Capobianco Park in January 2013.