Our cat's worst enemy

Meet our neighborhood menace. This female Blackbird is nesting somewhere close to our garden and is taken her duty as a mother very serious. Every time our cat makes an appearance in our backyard, she sits on this fence non-stop squeaking. It is extremely loud and annoying. Every minute or so she even launches a fake attack on our cat, flying straight at it, and then only making a turn at the last second.

What's worse, she is growing in boldness. She isn't afraid of me anymore either, only when I come within touching distance will she flee. And she's come down the fence squeaking on the lawn only 2 meters away from our cat. She's even squeaking at our cat when he's inside, right from the edge of the outside window. And if our cat moves to the street, the front of the house, she'll fly over the roof and launch her non-stop squeaking from there.

For several weeks, our cat couldn't go anywhere without being harassed non-stop. The verbal violence is now over, likely because the nest hatched. Yet she still feels she owns our backyard, as she made very clear when she picks earth worms from right behind my back when I am working in the garden.

All is forgiven, lady blackbird.