RSPB sounds alarm over Arne peninsula, one of UK’s most heavily protected natural areas
On the Arne peninsula in Dorset, the gnarled heather and gorse gives way to a soft sand beach gently lapped by the opaque waters of Poole harbour.
But as a flock of oystercatchers graces the skies above this globally significant ecological site, an unsettling anxiety pervades the otherwise tranquil idyll.