Delhi

birds

A Peacock nods off to sleep in the hot summer sun of a Delhi afternoon, his nictitating membrane shuts as he feels secure enough to take an afternoon nap at the Wilderness Orchard Peafowl sanctuary in Delhi.

wildlife · birds

Indian Spot billed Duck visits a polluted Indian city pond in Delhi : Even birds have to pay the price for human pollution, this stream having been polluted with the sewage and human waste runoff from the Radha Soami Satsang Beas in New Del…

hills · farmland

Teetar or Grey Francolin Partridge eat grass seeds in Delhi's Wilderness Orchard botanical arboretum Koels and Parakeets call out as the Grey Partridge gambol and hunt for insect food, with their chicks in our wildfilmsindia gardens.

flowers · industry

Gloriosa superba, commonly known as the glory lily, is a striking, poisonous flowering plant with a history of medicinal and ornamental uses.

farmland · wildlife

Curlew mum with grown-up chick! What a gentle wonderful old world shy creature is the Eurasian Stone Curlew as seen at the Wilderness Orchard in Delhi Party time for birds that nest on the ground, and have to fend off potential predators.

farmland

Collecting soil samples and taking temperature readings from below different fruit trees is Sonali Sinha of Farming Fork, a Food Biotech Researcher who is working on a collection of microbiomes (with a focus on Yeasts) in Delhi during the s…

flowers

Hornbill gently offers a Garden lizard to its female who is incercerated inside a tree trunk nest-hole Close-up of a Hornbill's casque as the male comes in to regurgitate berries for the incercerated female Grey Hornbill in a New Delhi city…

wildlife · birds

With its larger yellow googly eyes, an Eurasian Stone Curlew sits on eggs in Delhi heat, a shy retiring bird: The meek shall inherit the earth! What a wonderful creature of the night...

fort

Rajon ki Baoli water step well and other forgotten and unnamed unidentified monuments at Mehrauli Archaeological Park in New Delhi.

flowers

Mahua tree flowers in the Delhi spring: Mahua is used to make a local toddy type booze brew that bears also like

festival

Eid festival special food Parath and Halwa are being cocked near Jama Masjid, people are eating the halwa and paratha of Eid festival in Delhi

birds

Collared Scops Owl is a cute little nocturnal fellow with ruby red eyes, as seen at wildfilmsindia in Delhi

flowers · wildlife

Tiger moths and honey bees on Cineraria flowers at the Wilderness Orchard botaical collection in New Delhi

flowers · farmland

Sunlight and shadows fall over masses of Amaryllis Lily flowers, as the spring sun progress across them.

farmland

Peacock Pansy butterfly flutters by at the Wilderness Orchard in Delhi, a flash or orange with lovely spots

wildlife · birds

Glossy Black Ibis at Wilderness Orchard in Delhi: This water bird is fast recovering lost round in Delhi! With its adaptive nature, the Ibis is breeding and spreading its territory across the taller trees and leafy copses of Delhi city.

river

Green Sandpiper hangs out in polluted waters of what was once a pure Aravalli stream: Delhi damnation. A Green Sandipiper frequents a polluted open drain in Delhi, what once used to be a beautiful Aravalli stream

birds · farmland

Parakeet couple prepare for their breeding season, get cosy and intimate at Wilderness Orchard in Delhi A Rose-ringed Parakeet couple nests in a hollow tree trunk cavity at Wilderness Orchard in Delhi: Tota family in breeding mode.

river · ceremony

Snowfall in Delhi? Nope, just good old detergent foam and water pollution in the Yamuna-Ganga riverine basin.

birds · wildlife

A Rose-ringed Parakeet couple nests in a hollow tree trunk cavity at Wilderness Orchard in Delhi: Tota family in breeding mode.

dance · livestock

Even as cars head to farm-houses worth US$10 million and above, the roadsides are open garbage disposal fields, and the roads are jam-packed with cars. Is this the utopian dream of the New India?

river · lake

Bauhinia blakeana flowers cover the ground in a rich tapestry of reddish-pink, at the Wilderness Orchard in the New Delhi spring-time.

livestock

A Water Buffalo or bhainsa herd wallow and bathe in sullied sewage waters in Delhi; one has a long cloth strand stuck in one of its horns, and tries to shake it off.