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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fozzybear" data-source="post: 1853930" data-attributes="member: 69297">I've just got back from a week in North Norfolk and when I was at Cley I saw something I'd never seen before - leaving the Bishops hide I saw Swallows zooming around low over the side pool next to the track but then one disappeared into the water with a splash. I looked and couldn't see it, worrying it was a young bird that had misjudged a drinking dip. Then I saw a bird emerge from the water a short distance away. It flew off and then I saw a swallow dive into the water and come up a few feet away and then fly to a wooden structure on the side of the pool and perch there near another swallow. It then flew up and mated with this swallow and then flew down and dipped into the water repeatedly splashing up water (see photo) before returning to the wooden structure and perching there.I didn't have time to ask at the visitor centre but a birder I told in one of the hides had never heard of it. Is this known behaviour amongst Swallows or am I losing my marbles?!</blockquote>