James Aldred

Stories

5th July 2022

Spending lockdown alone in the New Forest canopy

In spring and summer 2020, as lockdown stifled human life, wildlife filmmaker James Aldred found himself alone in a New Forest hide filming nesting goshawks. Goshawk Summer recounts those strange, wondrous weeks watching the natural world unfurl into the space vacated human activity. We asked him about that time, at once teeming and devoid of life.

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James Aldred

James Aldred

James Aldred is the celebrated author of The Man Who Climbs Trees and an Emmy Award winning documentary wildlife camera man and filmmaker. He works with the likes of the BBC and National Geographic and has collaborated with Sir David Attenborough on numerous projects including Life of Mammals, Planet Earth and Our Planet. He specialises in forest filming, especially at height within forest canopy, where he uses ropes and canopy platforms to film orangutans, chimps and birds of prey.