Thermal technology has transformed the way I film wildlife. It used it take me hours to find the secret places hares hide their babies, but with a thermal monocular it takes a matter of minutes. And I'm using it during the day, as well as at night.
Thermal monocular
This HIKMICRO Falcon FQ50 2.0 from South West Optics was designed for spotting animals at night - but I actually find it really useful for locating animals in the day. Watch how I used it to get spectacular footage of baby hares, known as leverets.
Hares are deeply secretive animals. They hide their young in long grasses to keep them safe from predators and only visit them at night. I have set up security cameras to track a hare as she visits her youngsters at night, but when I return to the spot in the day the leverets are so well camouflaged it is virtually impossible to see them with the naked eye - even when you know where to look.
But the HIKMICRO Falcon Hand Held Thermal Imager Monocular, which fits snugly into my pocket, traces an animal's heat signature which means I can use it to locate the exact hiding places of these adorable animals within minutes - giving me more daylight hours to film these magical creatures.
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There is nothing more beautiful than bunnies and hares. Most people don’t realize that rabbits and hares nurse standing up. They are poised for flight to divert away from a predator. I am so in love with them. We don’t have hares in the US, but lots of wild bunnies. The best compliment I ever had was a wild bunny that I fed and she trusted me, would come up to me and nurse her babies right in front of me. They were roly poly balls of fluff. Your paintings of hares are so accurate, you really capture them as if they were right in front of us live. You are simply exceptional. Please put out an autobiography!!!!!