Day 4, front entrance of Leamington hotel, Ontario

Yay, tonight I have finally finished uploading my photos from Day 4 of our two-week holiday in Point Pelee and area (Ontario) and Tadoussac (Quebec), May 2018. Too tired to even think about adding descriptions to all the images, so will have to do that tomorrow. Hopefully, I will be able to start editing photos from Day 5 tomorrow. There are not all that many photos to post from Day 5, as it was a day of travelling.

The Best Western Hotel near Leamington, Ontario, has a front door (or was it the adjacent windows?) that is beautifully decorated with paintings of various bird species found in the area. I just couldn't resist photographing each pane. A lot of birders stay at this hotel because it is so close to Point Pelee.
We were very lucky to see a real Red-headed Woodpecker at Point Pelee on our very first day there, 7 May 2018. Added a photo in a comment box below.

"The red-headed woodpecker is rated as least concern on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)'s Red List of Endangered species. It was formerly rated as near threatened, having been reclassified from Least Concern in 2004 after it appeared to have suffered a 65.5% decline in population over 40 years. However, increased habitat management has caused its numbers to stabilize, thus leading to its downlisting." From Wikipedia.

Day 4 of our holiday was 10 May 2018. We had a ridiiculously early start to the day, as we had been told that American Woodcocks (Scolopax minor) tend to gather in and around the hotel parking lot. That information was just too good to ignore, so I think it was sometime after 4:00 am that we were out there, searching. As it turned out, in vain, though we did hear two individuals vocalizing in the dark bushes across the road. The American Woodcock is "a small chunky shorebird species found primarily in the eastern half of North America. Woodcocks spend most of their time on the ground in brushy, young-forest habitats, where the birds' brown, black, and gray plumage provides excellent camouflage." From Wikipedia.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_woodcock

This last day was spent at Pt Pelee, walking a few trails including at The Tip again. We also drove to The Onion Fields, just north of Pt Pelee, between Hillman Marsh and Pt Pelee, where we had a great sighting - a very, very distant male Snowy Owl, sitting way out in a field, next to a white post!! Awful photos, but will eventually post one of them, just for the record. As always, I did not manage to see every species of bird this day, but was happy to see at least some of them!

The next morning, 11 May, we had to do the very long drive from Pelee to Toronto, where we caught a plane to Quebec City, arriving there at 2:45 pm. From there, we had a long drive east to reach the small village of Tadoussac on the St. Lawrence Seaway. There, we would be staying for a week at the summer 'cabin' of one of our group of friends.

For a more detailed account of our two-week trip east, see www.flickr.com/photos/annkelliott/45038233955/in/datepost...