IT WAS All’s Well That Ends Well for Reggie the rogue Black Swan who had found love at last.

After just one day in Dawlish, it was like Romeo and Juliet’s love story for Reggie, who had to be evicted from his previous home in Stratford-On-Avon.

But Reggie’s love story has a happier ending than Shakespeare’s character as he and his new love are now enjoying life on a lake at a secret location.

It’s all down to Dawlish Waterfowl Warden Don Phillips, or Cilla as he should now be called for his match-making skills.

Reggie had mysteriously appeared in the Bard’s birthplace last Christmas and had been terrorising its white Mute swan population.

But he soon earned a reputation as a hell raiser, attacking other swans.

Thanks to Don, there is a happy ending since Reggie was brought to Dawlish and set up with a choice of two potential loverbirds.

But it seemed to be love at first sight as within a day, the pair had been whisked away to their own lovenest.

Don said: ‘I picked him up and set him up in a pen with two females and he was absolutely fantastic.

‘He had been in the wrong environment and since he was here, he was a lovely bird.

‘As they say, birds of a feather stick together.

‘If we didn’t have Bert, I would have kept him but we can’t have two males.

‘Now he has his own place, by a lovely lake, with his new girlfriend.’

Reggie had seemed to appear from nowhere when he arrived out of the blue in Stratford but Don explained he was able to fly as he had not been pinioned as a young cygnet.

Swan keeper Cyril Bennis, a former Mayor of Stratford, had wised up to Reggie’s antics on the River Avon and named him Mr Terminator due to his aggressive nature.

Cyril had contacted Don as Dawlish is renowned for its thriving population of Black Swans to see what could be done about Reggie’s disruptive behaviour.

Don agreed to move the swan to Dawlish and try to pair him up with a mate.

Cyril said: ‘I am just so relieved.

'People were very unhappy with me for removing him, but he had to go – he was causing problems.

‘I called him Mr Terminator as he was aggressive to male native mute swans.

‘Now he’s being well looked after and has found a new mate, I’m happy for him.’

Cyril and fellow Stratford swan volunteer Anne Sullivan drove to Gloucester services on the M5 to meet Don for the handover and onward journey to his new home in Dawlish.

Cyril said: ‘He’s been given his own area and was allowed his choice of mates, and he decided very quickly.

‘It’s the best thing for him.’

Reggie had become infamous in Stratford after he attacked and drove away a male Mute swan and moved in on its mate.

He also tried to drown another Mute swan in the river.

Cyril was grateful to Don for taking Reggie on.

He said: ‘I am so grateful and relieved as I didn’t want him to go just anywhere.

‘In Dawlish, he is among his own kind.’