What has been so amazing about the thermals is that it opens a whole new world....one you don't know exists. What I mean is that you see things there is now way to see with night vision or even bright lights. For example several times we pulled into one of our farms and there were deer in small brush that we couldn't see with the head lights as we drove in. Even after we parked, got out, slammed the doors, talked quietly to each other the deer still stayed there. They were evidently positive we couldn't see them.
In the video I started this thread with, we called a bobcat into the call 3 times. Called him in and let him leave. The third time he even walked right past a rabbit at 10 yards in a bare field. We called him in with a rabbit call but he evidently couldn't see the real rabbit or wasn't hungry at all. This is about 2/3 of the way through the video on black hot.
Amazing view into an unseen world.