According to some, they can see the infrared light emitted by these cameras. It is like a bright beacon to them, and they can easily avoid such cameras.
There’s a story about a USAF F-16 pilot over Afghanistan who saw something huge digging in a wheat field there on his thermal sensor. He “painted” it with his infrared scanner, and the thing jumped up on two legs, flailed its arms around and covered its eyes like it was blinded.
I thought I saw the Tooth Fairy once. It was just my mom. She had forgotten.