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There are those who have the ability to know. Awareness takes practice. It is told that a band of Shawnee spooked while crossing the Ohio in front of an ambush set by Sam Brady's Rangers. He paddled out to mid-river to know why. It was single branch of the ambush blind turned so the underside of the leaves were showing. To some, you might as well put up a road sign. It is knowable.

Well, there are unique characteristics to these things Nakani, and a scroll up this thread will show you what those are. Nobody here (at least not me) is saying every tree/limb break is significant, or even that more than 1 in a 1,000 of those (to be arbitrary) have any significance at all. If you are approaching this with any other default setting aside from wind/snow/ice/human agency, you are not approaching it correctly, in my view. That said.... When you do have something that doesn't fit the known, AND it fits a pattern of other unknowns, then that is significant. Or it should be.

Part of thinking outside the box is to disguise them the best we can figure out how to do. Even if BF does not know what their purpose is, they have to be distrustful of anything made by man and would naturally avoid them. I have wondered also if someone modified the cameras so that they actually took pictures to the side instead of the front if that would make them more successful. And of course there is that plastics / electronics smell that may be very detectable to something with a sensitive nose. Les Stroud might have overcome that to some extent when he buried cameras on Survivorman BF. Certainly the more that is buried and not above ground to smell would take care of some of the smell problem. I wonder if they were smeared with mud and had moss attached if that would help? I wonder If we take the electronics out of the case, smear the case with mud, and let moss grow on them all winter before putting the electronics back in and deploying them in the summer if that would help?. Those in dry climates probably have no idea how fast moss grows on everything here left outdoors. I had a Chevy Blazer with a fiberglass roof. The fiberglass roof was sort of rough surfaced and during the winter I had a nice crop of moss growing on it. I had a friend in college that had a car that had grass growing out of the carpet on the floor of the back seat. They do not call them PNW rain forests without good reason.

I have thought about my muppet present I got that time with reference to camera placement. If you have an active area like a camp, put an interval camera inside some object that BF are curious about. From campground accounts all you would have to do is put it inside a brick of cheese in your cooler or a package of food in some sort of food box. Checking out the contents of coolers seems to be very common. I remember one account where BF came into camp and tasted the dishwater that had been left out. They could hear the BF spitting out the water. Certainly rather than aim cameras outward in a campground, one might think about aiming a camera towards the tent or camper. That seems to be the focus of BF interest in the camp after people go to bed. Also BF seems to peer into cars parked at such camps. Not sure BF could differentiate a time lapse passive camera from the other stuff inside a car. Many cars have flashing lights associated with their security systems. I have a new car and I barely know what stuff does in the car. A BF would be even more clueless than I am about gadgets in the car.

Speaking of my time lapse camera. I wonder what interval I should set it at? Probably depends on where it is located. Some close in area a short interval, then some large area where it would take some time for something to move across it. I guess I could time myself walking through a subject area then set the interval appropriately to get one or more pictures in the time it takes me to move through. Anyone else have any thoughts on this?

I think everyone knows this and I think deep down they know it's not Bigfoot breaking these branches. But it's fun to pretend and suspend disbelief and with such scant evidence available broken branches can be exciting evidence of Bigfoot.

That sounds like me Dave. Been working on a construction project. The Plotwatcher is a time lapse camera too. Sure curious about the new camera SWWSP just got. I think if we are going to get a picture of BF it will be with a time lapse camera.

Out in the GPNF today. Figured with rain showers no humans would be out there. I was wrong, as there were at least three other vehicles doing what I as doing. Driving along slowly, looking around, and stopping now and then between rain showers. Any forum members out squatching today? Some gold miners where running their sluice box in the raging Lewis River. The strong runoff must stir up the gold flakes. Looked very cold to be out in the river like that.

Just spoke to the man who filed the "twisted limb" report. He had mowed the area the day before, the limb wasn't twisted by him or the mower. He's a big man. When he tried to twist off a similar sized limb, the bark abraded his palms. The tree may not be a Saw-Toothed Oak. He's sending me a photo of a leaf, I'll try to identify the tree.