A new alarm clock

As it was so hot last night, I slept (or tried to) with the window wide open in my bedroom. It's quite safe as no-one would be able to get in without making a lot of noise and would also be noticed as I look out onto the street. Besides, one look at me would scare off any burglar! Poor Eden cannot have her window open because it is a sash window and there is access over the flat roof of the kitchen. People have tried to break in this way some years ago before I put a 6 foot trellis along the length of the wall making it too difficult to get over easily. Anyway, Eden's room is much cooler and she doesn't suffer from heat as much as I do.
After being woken a couple of times in the very early hours by people coming home from a night out and talking very loudly as they do, I dropped back off to sleep hoping that I would stay that way until the alarm went off.
How wrong can you be? I was woken very rudely just after 6am by a magpie 'clacking' loudly. In my half conscious state I listened for a few minutes and realised it was probably giving a flying lesson to one of it's young. They tend to get them out of the nest early in the morning, especially if the weather is very warm.
Then I heard next door's front door open and close. That's when the magpie went beserk! The 'clacking' went up by at least fifty decibels and became almost continuous which brought me abruptly out of my somnolent state. I got out of bed and went to the window to see next door's cat sitting on the path washing itself and the magpie just a couple of feet away 'clacking' and jumping around as if it had a damaged wing.
The cat watched it with a look of boredom and carried on with it's early morning ablutions.The magpie got closer and the tried to get the cat to follow it. The cat couldn't be bothered but that did not stop the magpie trying it's darnedest to get the cat's attention so that it wouldn't see the young magpie. The youngster, by the way, was sitting on the roof of the row of houses opposite shouting support for it's parent and still the cat took no notice but carried on washing itself.
With all the racket I was well and truly awake so decided to make a cup of tea. As I came downstairs I did wonder if the cat was deaf because these are the neighbours that play the 'head banging' music so loud that everything in my house shakes!