Goshawk Summer: The Diary of an Extraordinary Season in the Forest - WINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING 2022

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One thing that stuck in my mind was the peace and tranquillity contrasted with the noise and chaos of everyday life.

JAMES ALDRED — Goshawk Summer

I found the whole of Goshawk Summer quite magical and if you enjoy the natural world, then I am sure you will too. Goshawk Summer is no different; in fact, I would go as far to say that it is the most thoughtful one which I have read to date.Er hat mit Sir Richard Attenborough zusammengearbeitet und hat für seine Dokumentation einen Emmy bekommen. His diary chronicles a few months of extraordinary wildlife encounters – not only with the goshawks across from whose nest he built a special treetop platform, but also with dragonflies, fox cubs, and rare birds like cuckoo and Dartford warbler. The idea that pheasant shooting is less of a persecution problem than that of grouse is largely myth, plenty of them sadly are “at it.

Goshawk Summer - Eventbrite James Aldred: Goshawk Summer - Eventbrite

There was one over my garden, almost on this date, in 2014 but I have had a handful of Merlin sightings, tens of sightings of Kestrels, Hobbys and Peregrines, hundreds of Sparrowhawks and Buzzards and thousands of Red Kites since then with no more Goshawks. This assignment was to create content for a Smithsonian TV documentary entitled New Forest: The Crown's Hunting Ground which was aired in late 2021. During lockdown, James takes his three boys out into the empty landscape bringing with them their bows and arrows with them. In spring 2020, while we were locked down for the first time in our lives due to Covid 19, James Aldred was roaming the New Forest filming a goshawk family and other wildlife.What resulted from this work was a beautiful account of a season in parts of the mysterious world of the New Forest, in which the author's genuine love and respect for nature shone forth - truly magical and a delight to read. James Aldred's account of a season spent filming Britain's most powerful and mesmerising avian predator shines with the shifting complexities of weather, season, mood and place. Sitting alone in a hide up in the tree canopy watching the nest for hours on end across the season, James shares with us the intimate insight he got into their lives. Auf der morgendlichen Fahrt zum New Forrest musste er irgendwann nicht mehr auf andere Fahrzeuge auf der Straße achten, sondern vielmehr auf Wild. I love watching documentaries about wildlife cameramen, and I am in awe at the sheer amount of time and patience which it takes to film just one or two scenes.