I was just looking in the field across the road from our house and noted about a dozen crows really going after what I initially thought was another crow. This bird was slightly smaller than the crows, but otherwise looked, from a distance, just like them. The crows forced it to the ground; 2 crows then stood on either side of it while the rest circled and cawed directly overhead and "bombed" it. It then flew and I noted the under wing pattern like a turkey vulture. The bird was definitely not a vulture. I have not seen crows go after anything with this intensity unless it was a great horned owl. Could it have been a kite of some kind? They all flew rapidly off to the SE before I could get the scope.
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