Very nice entertaining coffee break on the balcony this morning. About 50-60 Herring Gulls had found a thermal just the other side of the back garden and was joined by a few Jackdaws and Carrion Crows while a Buzzard cruised disdainfully underneath them. Then we saw a Cuckoo flying swiftly across the back as well coming from the Rye Farm area and heading towards the Barrow Hill area. (MR)