A person in our Audubon chapter has sent the following e-mail to us and we're stumped on the ID. 
Maybe someone out there can help:

I received the following emails recently from Liz Murphy about an unusual bird at her feeder.   I know 
it's not much to go on, but do you have any hypothesis as to what it might be? 
    
May 24:    Do you know where I could find information about an usual bird at my feeder?     Can't 
locate it in Peterson's guide.  Black, size of a small crow or medium woodpecker, with a wide white 
band on the tail...and when it bows its head, you can see white around it's neck...but it's not like a 
white band - only truly visible when it bowed it's head to the feeder. 
 
 June 12:   Have seen it once more - with witnesses (so you don't think I'm crazy).  "regular" bill - not 
like a Grosbeak.  Totally black except for the odd white THIN collar that only shows when he bends 
his neck and the thick white stripe down the tail - takes up at least 1/2 the tail, down the middle.  
About the size of a grackel.
 
This is in the Akron area.

Thanks for any comments.

Clyde

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