yes its good to hear the old sounds of the countryside coming back again , curlews lapwings, skylarks etc etc, regarding the IR they defo get educated to the glow more so if you are spotting with it , if you seen some one holding a lit ciggy in a dark spot it wouldn't attract to much attention till they started moving it around, I always tell the grandson when spotting move slowly when scanning, I have just picked up a Drone x10 and an extended pic rail but will stick with my gen 2+ till the dark nights