I have to say the idea that they are in North Carolina coming to some lady’s feeder seems really farfetched. Take a picture next time, but given the last place they were seen was in the Louisiana swamps 80 years ago, color me skeptical.
I see Pilated Woodpeckers here in coastal North Carolina fairly often. I had a cabin on a lake in central Missouri for a dozen years and with a suet feeder hung outside the family room window we would get a Pilated three times a day like clockwork.
Their vision is so great that if you move they can see you through the glass and they are gone in an instant. If I stayed frozen I could observe them at a three foot distance for a minute and a half or more.