Sounds perfectly Bunyunesque, my FRiend...hopefully you've got video of it or else I tend to think it's a tall tale!! Them egrets is purty big.
"The worst part was gettin' him untangled from the line 'cause he wanted to use that long beak on my hands and arms. He/she didn't understand we were just doin' this fer fun."
Betcha y'all wouldda won America's Funniest Home Videos with that one...LOL!! Gotta love nature...MUD
A tall tale coming from a Texan? I'm hurt; cut to the quick as it were. I got witnesses; well one anyway. The bird ain't talkin; got a frog in its throat.
FGS ;^)