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I made my own, with built in low pass filters. This helps me record what I want, and filter out annoying bug noises. They need power though, so they run on a 9V battery, that also lasts a week. It's all explained in that audio sharing thread.

I've only had the chance to see 3 different times when we've found handprints, but in every one of those, what was strikingly obvious was how dirty the hands were. If I had to categorize them, I'd say they were a very even mix of sand/dirt and maybe a fine amount of smaller particles. Here's a few pics from 2013 when I found our second set in late March while there to open the camper for the first weekend of the season. There were 3 prints: 1 left up high - 2 right prints mid and lower. My impression/opinion is that it came in to try and look into the camper sometime reasonably close in time to my being there, and placed it's hands in such a way to facilitate leaning in to try looking thru the glass. I always leave my vinyl interior window covers down and snapped, so if it was doing this in the day, all it saw was 'black' and likely a reflection of itself as it approached. By choice, I left the handprints untouched for the entire season, and in hindsight, I wish I had periodically taken additional pics to show the rate of decay in the visibility of them, but over the spring, summer and fall, the sand/dirt/mud was gone within a month of two, but up sometime into mid-fall easily, you could look out thru the window and still observe the impression/outline of where a hand had been. I always assumed THAT WAS an oil or substance on the palms that rain and time took much longer to clean off the glass. As an FYI, in the pics with the tape measure being used, it appeared the top-most finger prints that left anything from it's leaning in and resting it's hand was between 80 and 81 inches. All of these photos were taken with a cell phone camera, and back in 2013 I have no clue what I was using. Maybe an LG, but I don't remember the model. It baffles me why I didn't grab my DSLR. I surely had it with me. The other incidents took place in 2010 when a pair of hand prints were placed on my daughter's car over-night and basically shared these same material characteristics of sand/dirt/mud to them. That was the night I found there had been one walk into the shelter area about 15 minutes after we had finally gone in for the night (for good) and it stood over my recorder to sniff it then casually walk back out. The last time we've seen handprints and known it was 2015 <?> I think... when the land owner was doing some clear-cutting in the north woods and his tractor cab glass windows had some partial hand prints and what appeared to be finger smears close to them. Again, just sandy/dirty/muddy.

Its officially 2021 and im starting the year off right tomorrow A.M. and figured I what everyone else has planned for the new year. Or see if anyone wanted to share some goals for 2021 research year. Tomorrow im going to scout an area to place a Mic Tree that weve built. 6 Mics, multi directional, in a active area, crossed fingers. Ill be using a Zoom H5, and some nano cameras. Im also working on a few other prosthetic covers for some equipment that will help it blend into the species of tree I place it on. I'll also be scouting an area over the next few days looking for some fresh tracks in the area due to the wet weather weve had recently. I like to cast all the species I can find so I have a record of the food supply in the area and plaster is cheaper than a game cam lol. I'm hoping to collect more casts this year and really hoping to catch some good audio. If I only get one sample of audio this year I'll be satisfied with 2021 lol.

Not unless you have a pristine white ghillie suit and take promo photos of yourself walking across a creek. Found this while following another thread and it got me laughing!

I'd be very reluctant to wear the Rocky Mountain High gaiters if snake protection is what you seek. The RMH gaiters are a multi-purpose gaiter that are not designed to repel a snakebite. OR doesn't even mention the word snake when describing these gaiters. The website says they are for hiking, backpacking and cross-country skiing. https://www.outdoorresearch.com/us/mens-rocky-mountain-high-gaiters-243108#eyJvcl9zaXplIjoiNzIifQ__ There are a number of gaiters that are designed specifically for snake protection. The lightest is made by Turtleskin. I have a pair of these gaiters for use most of the time and also have a pair of Turtleskin chaps that I use when going off trail in an area where there are steep inclines. I've been in contact with several herpetologists and not one was aware of a bite from a Timber Rattler (the snake I deal with) in the wild above the knee. They thought it could be possible if the snake was above your feet, as with an incline, or if you were sitting down on a log. That's where the chaps come into play. https://turtleskin.com/default/outdoor-snake-protection/snakearmor-snake-protection.html

@GuyInIndiana Don't your handprints seem very close apart for a large being to be looking into a window? Imagine the mechanics of your arms doing the same thing. Now imagine a 7 ft sasquatch doing it. If they were peering in using that method (hands apart, face leaning in, hands not cupped but positioned flat on the camper), I would expect the elbows to naturally splay outwards (think doing a pushup against the camper). If that were the case, the proportions on the distance between handprints seems more human than large beast.

Generally speaking, yes? It wasn't like you could make out the specific lines and ridges in the fingers that were present early on, but just sitting there in the camper looking out thru the window even up thru the fall, you could see that a 'hand' had been against the glass there. If that ever happens again, I'll hopefully get into documenting the event far more thoroughly and with longer follow-up. But overall, yes, while the material stuck to the glass washed away within a month or two <?> the image / impression of something handlike remained thru the end of the camping season. It was rather fascinating to look thru the glass many months later and see that you could still identify that a hand had been placed there. That's probably when it dawned on me that it was the oils of the hand doing that.

I think this is misleading....and probably for attention. Sebum makes sense to me (that they would have that). Sebum is essentially the oil your body produces. Most mammals produce some sort of sebum to protect their skin. However - what I read in the links infers that the sebum is white and special in that way. How is an oil white? If they said, "they have a lot of sebum and therefore it collects dust easier - we should focus on that", I'd get that. But they specifically said the white stuff was not dust and have even given it a fancy new name. I think they're purposefully trying to come up with something new for a "wow" and attention factor.

I modified my Sony ICD-PX333 field recorders so they can run a full week. I use AA rechargeable batteries instead of AAA, plus a 16GB SD card. (link)

Welcome to the BFF, derwinkitch!!! We have a good number of other Canadians onboard, enjoy the forums and ask if you have questions!

Wife and I took a walk to go check out a potential hunting area in George Washington Nat'l Forest. Mostly just a chance to get out, scout out the layout of the land, check for animal sign, etc. Wanted to get an opinion on what we saw. My wife noted red berries along the trail, but did not see anything that resembled a berry bush. We then noted some branch breaks right at the water's edge. The area does have beaver, whitetail, and black bear present. BRFO also turns up several reports in the area. No tracks found and the branch breaks look older but that would make sense to me as rifle season ended not too long ago and I found several empty shotgun shells (bird shot, we assume they were hunting squirrels) about 50yds away.