Hunter set up illegal blind

I live in rural Caledon, just west of Bolton, with my husband, three children and dog.

Mid-afternoon Dec. 24, my husband took our eldest (5) and his friend for a walk on our property. We have approximately eight acres of woods, fully fenced. As they walked the trail heading up the hill behind our house, they found themselves walking straight up a hunter's sight line.

In the previous few days, someone had mounted a 6-foot-square camouflaged hunting blind about 15 feet high against a tree (so we wrecked our coats and pants on the fresh paint). He had positioned a deer feeding station near the base of the blind.

Shots fired from the blind towards the feeding station would travel down the trail (very obviously a cut walking trail) towards our house. I phoned the OPP who instructed me to immediately demolish it, which we did. They will lay a trespassing charge if we catch the hunter on our property. I don't know how we would catch him - we're not safe to approach the back of our property as that would put us in the line of fire. Our little piece of paradise doesn't feel safe anymore.

Anne Warwick The Gore Road