Bob: Deer and most other game will not scare off until they pick up on human scent. Perhaps this is why you never saw them on the Ferguson. Being closer to the ground they picked up your scent. I have seen situations where the human scent didn't bother them also.
One winter I took on a contract to cut some logs, 10 miles from any civilization. The day I went and looked the site over on snowmobile there was not a deer track in snow anywhere. The snow was exceptionally deep that winter, thus deer were easy prey for their preditors. We plowed the road and my crew moved in there with 10 chain saws, John Deere 6 cylinder skidder and Timberjack forwarder with a Detroit diesel. Within 5 days, deer there were a herd on deer. My employees told me they would brouse in brush within 10' while they ate lunch or filed chain saw. The deer saw this as place of food, plowed roads as a place to run from preditors and furthermore saw my crew as the provider. Natural resource folks tell me we probably drew deer from a ten mile radius, as there was no one else working in the area.
Heard another story two guys loading a truck cross piling 8' wood, one guy running a separate vechicle cherry picker and the other guy on truck with log pick. The guy on the truck hadn't noticed there was a black bear brousing around left front fender of the truck, where some loggers had eaten their lunch. Guy on loader had noticed the bear. When the loading was done the truck driver came down a ladder behind cab and jumped from deck level. Bear had noticed him before he jumped, however he jumped right into the bear's path of escape. The bear plowed right into him, knocking him to the ground and was gone so fast the truck driver hardly knew what hit him. He was known to be a bit of a clutz. The guy on the loader told me this story, and further told me he laughed until tears ran down his cheeks.
My experience over the years, it seems as though these animals don't pick up your scent, if your more than 4' off the ground. I've seen the deere pick up my scent on a tractor if conditions are right, usually they are down wind from you. Never on a combine or a tractor with a cab. I don't think it's a case of seeing you, definitely human scent in my mind.
We used to have problems with crows pulling young corn plants and eating the seed. One could shoot them almost every time from tractor seat. They are not very easy to shoot if your on foot.
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