Weymouth Woods Sandhills Nature Preserve - Southern Pines, NC - Day 2

Tuesday October 10^th we returned to Weymouth Woods Sandhills Nature Preserve in hopes of spotting the elusive Red-cockaded Woodpecker and maybe see the Beavers. We hiked the same trails we did last time and added another one. We saw lots of birds, but just not our Woodpecker. Lots of mixed flocks. Lots of Bluebirds, Towhees, Robins, Pine Warblers, Chickadees and Titmice. Lots of Crows and Blue Jays. There were lots of Red-bellied Woodpeckers and one or 2 Pileated Woodpeckers, but not our guy. We did see one new bird today! Don’t laugh, but it’s a Yellow-bellied Sapsucker!

 Eastern Towhee

 Fall color

 Red-bellied Woodpecker

 Long Needled Pines

 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

 natural trail with lots of tree roots

bridge over the Beaver Pond

 Beaver Pond

Pine Warbler

 Eastern Bluebird

 Blue Jay

 Carolina Wren

Pileated Woodpecker

 Brown-headed Nuthatch

 Carolina Chickadee

Carolina Chickadee

 Gray Catbird - this guy posed in front of us for a long time - he was grooming

 trail

 Red-bellied Woodpecker

Gray-headed Nuthatch

We gave up at 12:30 and headed off to a quick lunch before stopping at Lowe's to buy the grill. The first Lowe's we stopped at had one, but the box was totally bashed in so we left to go to our last option in this area. They had one and it was sealed and looked good! We got the cart for it as well and picked up all the needed accessories since we gave away all of our stuff in Panama. If we were staying in the area the other grills in weird packaging would have been alright, but we won't get to use it until we move to our next stop (so no way to return it) which is Palmetto Shores RV Resort in Summerton SC.