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Incredible footage: flock of 90,000 feast

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By Charlotte Penketh-King via SWNS

This incredible video footage shows approximately 90,000 birds flocking to mudflats in Norfolk, England after migrating to the UK from Iceland for the winter.

Derek Lees, 72, had purposefully headed to RSPBB Snettisham, Norfolk, on the morning of November 8, in the hope of seeing a flock of migrated birds feasting on the mudflats.

The retired automotive technical consultant was thrilled to see the enormous flock of birds feeding on the mudflats after their journey of over 1,700 miles across the ocean.

The incredible video footage shows a collossal gathering of birds, predominantly knots and oystercatchers, moving together in a huddle on the mudflats at Lagoon 4.

Derek, who lives in Staffordshire, England said: "The birds migrate to the UK from their breeding grounds in Greenland/Iceland at this time of year to feed on the mudflats.

"They are forced off the mudflats during seven-meter high tides, which happened last weekend and will be repeated in the spring high tides."

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