had my springer out for its 2nd days beating yesterday and is coming on great for a year old, anyway she picked 3 partridge after the picker ups had been over the ground with there labs, one of the retreives she swam up the side of a burn to pick the bird from a small pool well chuffed to say the least, next retreive was a runner which lifted and crossed a river whitch she followed and picked it 30 feet on the other side, she instantly turned and jumped straight in to the river and swam back across to make me a very happy lad, i only wish i had a camera for the look on the picker ups faces f**