[gmacp]

Wife went up to let the chickens out this morning  - we keep them in an old stable and she found a dead female sparrowhawk lying in the middle of the floor.

Would love to know what happened in there? Maybe she panicked when she couldnt get out?

I assume the chciekns didn't gang up and kill her?

[doganjo]

Were there any marks on her? Had she been attacked?  The chickens would have attacked her if she had gone to the floor, possibly taken ill, or cold got her

[northfifeduckling]

They may as well have, they are killers if they get the opportunity 

[Fleecewife]

She must have been desperately hungry to have gone in there at all, then shock at being locked in and probably attacked by hens would have finished her.  Very sad.

[northfifeduckling]

I find here that they follow small birds into the run which are helping themselves at the hen food. Shame...

[fizzgigg]

probably the cold my friend is a falconer and he had a sparrow hawk once and it was a night mare to keep the weight on it they can die while out flying n the could weather doesnt help much must have been pretty hard up