THE FAMOUS Black Swans of Dawlish are laying eggs again.

One egg has appeared on the nesting site in rushes alongside the Brook so far.

Resident Noreen Goodchild has captured images of the latest developments.

The breeding pair of Bert and Kimba last previously had six eggs in September last year.

Those offspring, of which four remain, are now juveniles.

Two died when just a few months old, one was possible attacked by a seagull and the other died in November from ill health.

The swans have been the emblem of Dawlish for more than 50 years.

There are records of them in the early 20th century but they died out between the two world wars.

In the late 1940s, Captain GRS Pitman, a game warden in Uganda, presented a pair of Black Swans to Dawlish in memory of his parents.