So it is a not a mockingbird we have to kill

Joan has verified that the bird is a catbird, but no amount of research thus far has offered any means by which to get rid of said catbird. Powerwasher can be fun, but clearly ineffective. Tigger keeps watch so long as I am out there, but when the bird swoops, she runs inside. It is not even so much that I worry about the poor cat, it is the awful awful squawking the freaking bird makes (it never stops). I am going to try putting up mylar balloons around the deck to see if the bobbing shiny things will work (they do work for wood peckers). If they work it will surely be less upsetting than having bird guts all over the place.