Baffled???

ANY IDEAS??

Philip found this little bird at his gate the other day. It was dead under a tree and it has us both puzzled.

It is the size of a finch and we think the blue beak is very finch like.

It has a very white body and tail Wings too are mainly white with some brown  feathers among the white. There are several brown feathers in the wings. Perhaps these are part of the emerging adult plumage.

The head and rear of the body are a pale brown apart from a white patch on the forehead.

Neither Philip nor I can remember seeing anything similar before nor can we find anything like it in our books.

This little bird is a bit of a mystery at the moment.