Ever notice that our feline "friends" seem to always get the rarer or
prettier birds? I can't remember one of ours getting a house sparrow or a
crow. Ours seem to get spotted towhees and varied thrushes the most.
Sometimes I think a trained great horned owl would be a nice solution (if
it could be trained to just go after cats, not birds). We have a couple
of dogs in the back yard that for the most part keep the cats out. They
occasionally bark at and chase the birds, but soon lose interest, and the
birds return. Perhaps there's a market out there for trained dogs that
will chase cats away and leave birds alone?

wjansen