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Are you sure it is not the Red Cockaded Woodpecker in BSL that causes the problems? Pileated and Red Headed woodpeckers are quite common in that area.
Don’t know, but you better not cut down one with one of their nests in them…and get caught. Had nothing to do with Moore Co but more of a CYA thing due to state/federal “endangered/protected” species status. I’m not sure of their official status now but I think it’s still and issue in many places in the Sandhills. Bragg is/was covered with them on the Southern Pines side of the base. I didn’t keep the property long enough to do anything with it and was out of that area by the mid-200s.
I've used this style for several years.
This is the red cockaded woodpecker. Not nearly as flamboyant looking as the pileated, is it? These are the ones that are protected around my area, Pinehurst. They’re relatively shy, too. I’ve seen most of the other varieties around here, and these I see mostly in the morning. I can’t remember who they work for, maybe DNR, but there is a gang of biologists that come out to our courses twice a year I think to count and study them. I call them pecker checkers 🤣. They often don’t see the humor in that 🤷🏻. They’re a serious lot. If there is a sign like this on the tree
youre not supposed to cut it. I actually cut one yesterday that fell in a storm Wednesday afternoon though. The tree was hollow, as that’s what they like to nest in, and split about half way up. Evidently they are very choosy about the trees in which they nest and will only stay in trees that are live and bleed sap for their protection from predators. In fact in the first photo you’ll notice that cavity looks kinda squared around it, and it is. The pecked checkers that come out to our courses will cut a cavity in the tree and cover with a board with a hole in it. Sometimes it works, sometimes not. When we do lose a tree with the sign there is usually another metal tag attached to the tree that’s numbered that we remove along with the sign. Then we call it in (to whom I’ve forgotten — I usually just run the saw) to report it, and sometimes we’ll save a section of the tree with the cavity in it for them.
Very nice! My BIL has nice cameras and telephoto lenses and has taken great photos of birds at our home when he visits (I only have photos from my phone, which aren't impressive.) Any idea what distance and lens he was using?
He's a former pro photographer, so likely a DSLR similar to what your BIL uses. I think he uses Canon, but I'll see if I can find out.
