I have posted this on eager to learn. I thought it was just a crow. But somebody suggested that it could be a raven. What say you? And how do you tell?
My guess is that this is a Common Raven based on the big looking bill. If you observed the bird in flight, you may have been able to ID it as a Raven by the wedge shaped tail. Am. Crow does not have this feature. The calls of the two birds is much different also:).
The other guy also said the bill of it said raven, but he couldn't tell for sure one way or another. I think I'd pay more attention to these black birds from now on.