The birds' enemy

Next door's cat seems to love our clump of catmint and will lie in it until I chase him off. I prefer the birds visiting my garden and am not keen on the cats that visit.
We had  cracking thunder and lightening last night and a short burst of torrential; rain so everything in the garden looked refreshed this morning . The grass is now green again and needs cutting! A million gardening jobs are crying out to be done.