I removed the camera from the cul-de-sac to see what the outcome would be (I was going to remove it anyway since this turret doesn't zoom in enough). He finally left his domicile after a week of being home 24/7.
Any event, it gave me the chance to use the PTZ (albeit from the NVR interface) to get a better look at what he put up on the post. Still hard to tell, but it looks like a shitload of IR lights. I can't zoom in far enough with this PTZ to tell what the round white device is in the middle, but it doesn't look like a camera to me. See the attached image
Unfortunately for him, I don't run B/W on this camera, so the IR lights have no effect