If he was smaller than a Great Blue Heron but otherwise looked the same it may have been a Little Blue Heron. The immature birds are all white. They are roughly half the size of the Great Blue.

Tarpon, after writing this reply I saw that you are from Mt. Pleasant. The strange thing is that I was down at my pond Sunday night and saw a white bird coming across the water and thought it was a gull. He came straight to me until I moved and he flared at about 10 yards. I got a real good look at him and it was definitely a heron (all white). I looked him up in Peterson and didn't think that he fit the description of the egrets and didn't see the Little Blue Heron the first time I checked. When I checked again, I was pretty sure that it had to be a Little Blue. The strange thing is that they would be way out of their range in Michigan.

The water turkeys must be passing the word that the fishings good up north. Thats all we need are more fish eating birds. My bass are pretty scared up right now.