Ray: I would say it was a heron...looks a lot like our native Great Blue Heron. (I'm in Tennessee) It could be an egret, I suppose, but I'm going with heron.

This is not my "second childhood". I'm not finished with the first one yet.

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.

"I'd like to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather....not screaming in terror like the passengers on his bus." - Jack Handy