James Alred

Wildlife cameraman

James Aldred is the author of Goshawk Summer: A New Forest Season Unlike any Other, published by Elliott & Thompson. He is also an Emmy Award-winning documentary wildlife cameraman and film-maker, who specialises in filming chimps, orangutans and birds of prey. His 60 minute documentary, New Forest: the Crown’s Hunting Ground, was shown on the Smithsonian Channel and Channel 5.

It can fly at 61mph, has explosive acceleration and its powerful, sharp talons are able to crush and suffocate prey. Meet the phantom of the forest

Discover everything there is to know about the goshawk, an incredible bird of prey, including what it eats, how big it is, and how to identify it.