Delhi

wildlife · birds

This brave bird sits in 56 degrees Celcius heat out in the open sun, to rotect eggs: Red wattled Lapwing, with its mouth open and braving the terrible summer heat of a Delhi summer with the temperature going to 52.90 Celcius in the shade.

birds

Very human like in their approach to it, this Rose-ringed Parakeet tota pair hook up and couple in Delhi, in time for the spring breeding season. The male sidles up to the female and then takes a peck at her cheeck before proceeding.

flowers · farmland

Garden phlox is an easy one to grow, provides lovely colours in pinks, whites and lavender and, a hardy lasting cut flower with good vase life.

fort

A sadness hangs over the Tughlakabad Fort in New Delhi city today. Yes, this fprt had an exciting past. It provided the majestic backdrop to a dramatoc conflict between a Sultan and a Saint.

birds · wildlife

It is a true pity of the human race's garbage and wasteful plastic spewing ways that this poor Brahminy Myna is using plastic (and a Pond Heron's pure white feather!) to line its nest hole in a Jacaranda tree in Delhi.

This Langur monkey was kept as a hostage to be used as inentured labour to chase awat Rhesus Macaque bandars that come and do damage at farmhouses in South Delhi. The smart Langur ran off and sought shelter at the wildfilmsindia Orchard.

highway · hills

Vile air spreads across Delhi city as a government without a Chief Minister in his seat seems to have little control or grasp on the environment.

wildlife · birds

Rosy Starling enjoy the Delhi spring, take in some warmth and sunshine before the big migration north. Hordes of Rosy Pastors flock through Delhi in the early summer, as they head north on their migration.

flowers · farmland

Big display of Amaryllis belladonna Lilies or Hippeastrum in flower at Wilderness Orchard in March 2024 A range of colours of Amaryllis blooming beautifully at Wilderness Orchard botanical gardens in the Delhi spring-time, with crimsons, re…

With a bumpy outer surface, this wild root-stock orange has a lemoniness to it, and is used to make Yuzu in Japan and Yuja-cha in Korea.

industry · farmland

Plant parasite pest hemipterans at Wilderness Orchard in Delhi: mango mealybug (Drosicha mangiferae) is a pest of mango crops in Asia Mealy bugs can be washed off, but then fruit and flowers and buds also get washed off! The mango mealybug…

Chinese Orange or Narangi, sort of like Mandarin oranges, make a fine tart marmalade, add seeds in for pectin and avoid artificial perservatives, as seen growing at Wilderness Orchard in New Delhi.

wildlife · birds

A White-eye bird visits our peach blossoms at the Wilderness Orchard in Delhi, for insects and nectar - a double meal for it, all the while serving pollination duty! White-eye has the cutest ring of white around its eyes, flits from branch…

farmland

Burning crops in north India causes air pollution in Delhi city: Now even Uttr Pradesh hes joined in, and in off season February, with a different crop from rice - it's sugarcane now! Crop burning is truly catching on in India, and becoming…

wildlife · birds

A Tree Pie (a magpie or crow like Corvid family bird) attacking and eating up our ripe Papaya at the Wilderness Orchard in New Delhi : Some for the birds too! Avian vermin and agricultural marauder or just a plain cute birdie, perhaps? Tree…

Bharatiya Vayu Sena - Indian Air Force as the pride of India: Vayu Sena at Republic Day on 26 01 2024, in New Delhi. DRDO follows on the Kartavya Path tracks. Defence Research and Development Organization.

birds · farmland

A Green Barbet and a Red-vented Bulbul put up a one-two attack on our wild khatta orange fruit tree at the Wilderness Orchard in New Delhi, overdozing on their daily Vitamin C dose! and enjoying the tart citrusey sruit! Barbet and Bulbul pu…

Passport being stamped in India: Stock footage of replacement shots for make believe immigration / emigration department at arrivals at Delhi airport

Looking a little epileptic and thoroughly enjoying its mudbath is this female Indian Peafowl in our wildfilmsindia gardens in Delhi.

river · railway

DMRC Magenta Line passes over the polluted Yamuna River: Delhi Metro Rail Corporation moves the city. The distant towers (including one of north India's tallest) of NOIDA city stand out across the waters, in adjacent Uttar Pradesh state.

Hawai Mithai wala in Fatehpur Beri: Did you know this is what Cotton Candy or buddhi ke baal is also called? Hawai Mithai wala in Fatehpur Beri: Did you know this is how Cotton Candy or buddhi ke baal is called?

Hazy overcast foggy and low visibility. That is how one would describe these winter mornings in Delhi, further fraught with a thick blanket of 2.5 and 10 PM particulate matter that chokes human lungs with air pollution beyond imagination.

highway

Hazy overcast foggy and low visibility. That is how one would describe these winter mornings in Delhi, further fraught with a thick blanket of 2.5 and 10 PM particulate matter that chokes human lungs with air pollution beyond imagination.