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Reconyx; the deer look straight into the lens due to the noise from the color correcting filter clicking in or out of the light path. Reconyx trigger so fast that the little filter slaps into place. Quite noisey day or night. Silent Image series was monchromatic so no moving filter. Rapidfire series has the filters as does the hyperfire series. Noise aside, they are the fastest. I have checked Silent Image cameras to 4--5 images per second. A way to eliminate the filter noise is to remove the switching solenoid and lock the filter to IR mode. Weird day images, but quiet. This is advanced camera tweaking, not suitable for many 'researchers'. I always thought hunters liked a horned animal looking into the camera so they could fantasize about the rack. They have a lot of images of dead animals on their phones that they proudly display. The noise that humans can hear is a small part of noisy trail cameras. The ultrasonic noise is obnoxious, especially when the capacitors charge up and discharge for the flash. Special meters are needed to detect the ultrasonic noise. Generally speaking, Reconyx send more noise out of the left side of the case. Years ago, I bought a trail camera mount that had a ball fixture with quick release and steel mounting plate. I never found out if the fake camo scheme was painted or powder coated ( outgassing factor ). The mounting plate was a reflector/projector for ultrasonic noise. Scrapped it and made a wood mounting plate. I do not waste money on bear boxes. Trail cameras are not very directional in noise transmission and can be termed to have 'spherical projection' even though it is asymmetrical. They are screamers. An additional factor is ultraviolet reflectence. Deer have impressive vision in low light situations in the UV spectrum below 400nm. Humans see nothing in this region due to a yellow pigment in our lens that blocks UV. Trail cameras, mounting straps, boxes and cables may have a UV blue appearance to forest animals with low light vision. Green is the absolute worst color for a human to use to disguise themselves and equipment. Never attempt to imitate a 'biological green'..Dawn and dusk, the change of rod(black and white) night vision and cone (color) day vision is when your artificial greens stand out. Manufacturers will put UV reflective components in outdoor equipment to protect the item from harmful UV light. A low cost black light for testing can be found for less than $20. You and your equipment might look like glow bugs. Forest animals don't like that.

Really I think they will flank you whenever they feel like it, I'm reminded of the Army patrol in GA swamps that was circled by a BF several times just to show them it could do it. I was flanked on my home turf, and could see the flankers in the twilight (two of them) as I had been out and dark adapted for nearly 70-80 minutes. Sure, I think they would prefer to flank you under cover, especially if you are an unknown quantity. So happens I was a known quantity in this area.

I have a friend that lives in Franklin, New Hampshire, and she has had trouble with bears and birdseed. She had stopped putting seed out for years because of the Bears, and she just now started offering seed again this year. She immediately had a bear issue again.

The other danger I have faced while being in the woods is going into an a area that I was not suppose to hunt in. What I mean is a area that these creatures use for hunting and entering it and not knowing it. They will confront you and do what they can do what they can to get you out of there. Like being growled at or being pushed out of a area that they do not want you to be in. They will leave sign to let you know that they are around and will utilize fear very well. They will block trails to prevent you from passing through, they will show their force so that you will not to mess with them and they will make you feel un comfortable so that you leave.

The U.S. forest products industry produces $200 billion in sales a year and employs about one million workers. The forest production industry is also the leading generator and user of renewable energy. In 2011 the U.S. forest production industry recovered 66.8 percent of paper consumed. One need not think to hard about this, it is all dollars and cents, you discover a rare unknown primate in the US Forests, hmmm who is going to come running to its rescue? Can you imagine the pressure to limit harvesting the forests? Look at those numbers again one more time, yah that is all you need to know.

I saw some BFs last night in the edge of the woods & their eyes were shining yellow. They were flickering on & off, I suppose when they blinked. It was the first time I have ever seen them actually shining bright without a light being shined toward them. I have seen the muted green glow a few times with no light to cause it, & the red reflection, but this was a whole different experience. It looked like 6 fireflies hovering in the same spot, blinking on & off.