Looks like you saw a Reddish Egret.

Dalcio Dacol
Poolesville, MD



johnna robinson wrote:

> I recently saw a heron/egret I couldn't identify....   It was walking in
> the edge of the surf, it looked like a Great Egret (and I had seen
> several in the neighborhood), but it was all gray.  It was very tall,
> slim, graceful, the legs and bill grayish.  It didn't have the shape of
> a GBHeron.  It tucked it's neck when it flew.

> (Whisper:  I was in Port Aransas. )