A SECOND egg has been laid by the Black Swans of Dawlish.

Parents Bert and Kimba have settled on a fourth location after building nests in three other places.

Now, Kimba has laid one egg so far in the latest place, near Tuck’s Plot on a slope by the bridge.

This seems to be in preference to the specially-built island in the Brook an in bull rushes further up the Lawn.

One egg has already been laid elsewhere and had been lost, most likely to a seagull.

The original nesting area had been cordoned off by town council waterfowl wardens.

Now, the gates to the paths at this end of the Brook have also been shut to protect the breeding swans.

There are now a total of eight Black Swans living on the Brook.

Autumn and winter are breeding season for the swans.

During the breeding season the three separate swan groups are extra territorial and the four youngsters are spending a lot of time behind the bandstand on the Lawn at the moment.