Jabbarkhet

Uttarakhand·flowers

Farm manager Naresh at work in making posies and little daffodil bunches: Daffodils and Jonquil flowers being harvested at wildfilmsindia Jabbarkhet, for the house

Uttarakhand·hills · wildlife

With hints of blue, rust, brown and grey, this is one pretty bird! Scrabbling around in the oak understorey of dried leaves in this small covery of Peora partridge.

Uttarakhand·flowers · hills

Planted during the time of the British in the nineteenth century, these Cosmos have been reproducing successfully and spreading across our hill, at our botanical arboretum in the Western Himalaya.

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Uttarakhand·forest · hills

The most flamboyant of all Himalayan blooms, at least in terms of size and quantity, is surely the Rhododendron arboreum. Found across the Himalaya, the size of the Rhodo trees in wildfilmsindia's protected forests is truly remarkable.

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Uttarakhand·flowers

This footage showcases the colourful diversity of the WildFilmsIndia Jabbarkhet Botanical Arboretum garden.

Uttarakhand·wildlife · birds

Striated Laughing Thrush on Kaitha Wild Pear tree at wildfilmsindia Jabbarkhet bird sanctuary Striated Laughing Thrush is a lovely brown streaked Himalayan forest bird with a jaunty crest Lovely barring and feather flutings and striations o…

Uttarakhand·birds · hills

White neat white speckles on its upper body and a jaunty disposition, meet the Blue Whistling Thrush of the Himalaya: The Whistling Schoolboy of our hill station towns Cheery Blue Whistling Thrush or Whistling Schoolboy Kalchure at Jabbarkh…

Uttarakhand·flowers · hills

Most beautiful Himalayan flower? Born of seed contributed by the Meconopsis Group of the UK, and grown by wildfilmsindia in our Himalaya...

Uttarakhand·hills · river

Enlarging its throat pouch is this Himalayan frog species, as it tries to get its call to carry far and wide, and tell of its presence, its territory and its availability to breed.

Uttarakhand·hills · flowers

Wonderful spring-time Himalayan forest and mountains, with splashes of Rhododendron reds, as seen from wildfilmsindia's conservation lands at Jabbarkhet around Landour in Uttarakhand state.

Uttarakhand·forest

Langurs panic off an Oak tree while eating acorns, at our Jabbarkhet wildlife sanctuary.

Uttarakhand·birds · hills

Grey Drongo or Kotwal with its ruby red eyes, Black-crowned Jay with its impish ways, Greenish-Yellow Leaf Warbler in incessant hunting mode on a cypress tree, the nonchalant Himalayan Whistling Thrush and the sprightly Dark-grey Bush Chat…

Uttarakhand·flowers · hills

Harvesting peony seed pods: After the flowers fade, the plant forms plump green seed pods, like the ones in this video.

Uttarakhand·flowers

An Indian Tortoiseshell butterfly (Aglais caschmirensis) resting on a bright yellow single-flowered Dahlia in Jabbarkhet, Mussoorie, Uttarakhand.

Uttarakhand·monsoon · hills

Cloud cover envelopes the mountains around wildfilmsindia's conservation lands at Jabbarkhet in the western Himalaya. Monsoon mist, mountain rainy season cloud cover, time lapses of epic Himalayan proportions.

Uttarakhand·flowers · hills

Japanese Roof Iris has a pretty blue flower with yellow accents on each primary petal, as seen in flower at Jabbarkhet arboretum of wildfilmsindia, in the Himalaya

Uttarakhand·farmland · hills

The nectarine is a mashup between a peach and a plum, with the best qualities of both! Nectarine plucking on harvest day at wildfilmsindia Jabbarkhet Orchards in the Himalaya. Watch our first real nectarine harvest in motion in June 2024.

Uttarakhand·flowers

Birds and bees love the nectar on our Kniphofia flowers in the western Himalaya! With a Grey-winged Blackbird calling, it is summer-monsoon time in our forests.

Uttarakhand·hills · river

From the private property of WildFilmsIndia at Jabbarkhet Estate, the view is surreal. As seen in the video, the white building is the Jaypee Residency Manor overlooking the plains of Dehradun and the 'Rispana' river.

Uttarakhand·forest

The forest turns lush green during monsoon at the WildFilmsIndia Jabbarkhet Estate. A thick layer of moss can be seen growing almost everywhere around. The ferns are spreading from every corner to every corner of the forest.

Uttarakhand·hills · farmland

From our western Himalayan conservation field station, one looks right out to the Himalaya from each window of our rundown old godown cottage! The view makes one's day for it comprises of the peaks of Jaonli, Rudragaira and the Gangotri wal…