About 3 PM this afternoon we drove out to the Summer Hill area, first driving up Lick St to Hoag. Very quiet. Then taking Hoag towards Salt Road we saw an almost black bird about the size of a crow fly up from the side of the road--the ambient light was quite gray. Thinking it was a crow, we stopped and it flew into the woods. The back of the body and wings looked very dark almost black, but the underside of the wings looked almost white. It also had a single distinctive white band on its tail. We drove to where it had first been seen and saw a remnant of a deer carcass. We circled around and saw it again, but no more features. Except for the white belly and underwings and the white band on the tail we would have called it a crow. But it was not. Any help in a possible ID
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