ID this bird for me

Factual Questions
1

I have a little creek that runs right by my office window, and we get a nice assortment of wildlife to look at, but today I saw a bird in it I’ve never seen before. Sorry, no picture, as my camera is at home.

It’s a largish bird, smaller than an egret or heron, but obviously a wading bird like that. It has a long neck. It has long, yellow legs. It’s body seems to be a uniform grey color, slightly darker on it’s back. It’s face is white, with a large black horizontal stripe on each side. It has a black beak.

2

Oh, I’m in north Texas.

3

It sounds like a species of egret, possibly the [url=http://www.delawarevalleybirding.com/bird251.htm]little egret[/url.

4

Where are you located? It sounds like agrey heron.

5

Probably, but not that egret. His body was grey, like a 50% grey.

6

Yellow-crowned Night-Heron

7

His head was bigger than the grey heron’s, and he had this awesome horizontal black stripe on his face.

8

That looks a LOT like it.

9

That should be it, since the species occurs in north Texas, though it’s not too common. Map

Neither Gray Heron nor Little Egret occur in the U.S. except as extremly rare vagrants.

10

After fetching the binocs from the car and getting a better look at the bird, I’m positive that’s it.

Thanks everyone for the input.

11

Look at this one.

Black-crowned Night-Heron