NEW THERMAL! The AGM Taipan TM10 256 (bad name-great spotter) My first time using it in the field!

About 25 years ago the police department I was working for invested in a rooftop mounted thermal camera for one of our squads. It was ridiculously expensive but kind of cool to play with. It looked like R2-D2 and you watched what you were spotting on a little TV mounted between the seats. You could see if someone stuffed a beer bottle into their jacket from across the street. I even caught a suspect once with it. He was hiding in a field after he had ran away from a high speed chase or something like that.
About 10 years ago, working at a different place, my boss spent about $4000 on a handheld unit. It could easily spot a person in a field but the resolution wasn't very good and there were a lot of other things that would put out a heat signature that you could confuse for something even as large as a person.
Lately I've been seeing all sorts of cool videos shot through thermal scopes and the pull to get a hold of technology like that is very strong. Here's where the real world comes in. I would like to stay married. To the person I'm married to now. All of those cool units are outside of my price range. Way outside.
But then I came across the AGM Taipan line of spotting monoculars. The prices are not stratospheric, but do they have the resolution to see small game? This is a big question because I don't mind stretching to make a purchase on a quality piece of kit, but only if it's going to do the job I needed to do. What I needed to do is show me where the red squirrels are hiding up in the canopy of pines.
I took the plunge and bought the middle tier monocular from Utah Airguns. The most expensive model is over $1800 and the cheapest is $400. This one comes in just under $600.
I took it out a few nights to see what I could spot in empty fields. I was easily able to identify deer. A little more driving around and I came across a coyote. I also spotted either an owl or some other raptor and then found a pair of raccoons. I also located and identified a rabbit hopping amongst the stubble of a cornfield. Pretty cool!
OK I guess I should talk about this video. IT'S A PEST CONTROL VIDEO!
I finally had a chance to get out and try it in the field. Watch the video. You'll see.
Don't blame me if you are trying to figure out how to get a thermal spotter after you watch it. This thing is cool.
To my friends in the UK. I know you guys are trying to save the red squirrels. I support you fully in shooting the gray squirrels, I do that a lot too. While the red squirrels are not invasive here, they are massively destructive on wood structures. I don't understand why the gray squirrels behave the way they do over in your neighborhood, I've never seen them do that here. I've seen them do other bad things, so I'm with you that they need to be shot. But while the gray squirrels seem to strip out the bark on live trees there, our red squirrel population, for whatever reason, likes to chew dead wood. We have so many wooden structures here, and if they get inside them they will tear out the structure of a building. As a result, almost every farmer I've ever talked to has made red squirrels target of opportunity number one.