Jabbarkhet

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Chomping down and chowing: A butterfly caterpillar seen in time lapse at widfilmsindia Jabbarkhet in the Himalaya, chomping into our geranium leaves. Larval butterfly.

Uttarakhand·hills · flowers

Mists swirl up the valley as pink Hollyhocks bloom against the misty hills of monsoon drenched wildfilmsindia botanical collection at Jabbarkhet

Uttarakhand·monsoon · hills

Monsoon Fungi grow in rainy season forests around wildfilmsindi Jabbarkhet in the western Himalaya. Many Fungus varieties grow in the wet moist forests of the middle Himalaya. Most of these are not edible.

Uttarakhand·birds · forest

Lovely barring and feather flutings and striations on Striated Laughing Thrush at wildfilmsindia's Jabbarkhet forest Striated Laughing thrush gorges on ripe red-black Viburnum shrub berries at wildfilmsindia Jabbarkhet Himalayan arboretum.

Uttarakhand·flowers · hills

Early spring and late winter flowering German Bearded rhizomatic Iris at wildfilmsindia cold weather botanical collections in the Himalaya.

Uttarakhand·birds · wildlife

Hudhud has a long beak and a crest that makes it look like a hammerhead bird Hoopoe and Striated Laughing Thrush with its tall jaunty crest at wildfilmsindia Jabbarkhet in September 2023.

Uttarakhand·wildlife · birds

Chicks grow up in the crook of a tree trunk in our botanical arboretum, and get nurtered and tended tio by their parents - the black male with its grey wing streak and the brownish female.

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Anemone flowers in shockingly beautiful reds and whites at wildfilmsindia Jabbarkhet botanical collection

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Kerria japonica shrubs in profuse yellow flower, at wildfilmsindia Jabbarkhet botanical collections, with Common Hill Partridge calling along with a Streaked Laughing Thrush.

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Mohli, Kaitha or wild Himalayan Pear trees in spring-time bloom. Tulips, Allium or flowering onion, Aquilegia Nora Barlow and Granny's Bonnet, Sweet Peas, Primula malacoides, yellow Jasmine, Shirley Poppies, burgundy German rhizomatic Iris…

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This Brilliantly stately - even gaudy - Rhododendron arboreum tree is blooming in a particularly showy fashion this year, at our wildfilmsindia Jabbarkhet in Spring 2024.

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Kerria japonica and Magnolia soulangeana, rhizomatic Iris and Jews mantle shrub at Jabbarkhet botanical collections of wildfilmsindia in Uttarakhand.

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A perfectly formed swirl of a Persian Buttercup and Ranunculus at wildfilmsindia Jabbarkhet botanical collections in the Himalaya

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A botanical garden hand plucks Tete a tete daffodils at wildfilmsindia Jabbarkhet botanical arboreturm: Miniature yellow daffodils, to send down to Delhi.

Uttarakhand·birds · hills

Grey-winged Blackbird is one of India's finest songsters, even as it silently pecks around for insects A Grey winged Blackbird scrabbles around in the undergrowth at our wildfilmsindia sanctuary at Jabbarkhet, Uttarakhand.

Uttarakhand·industry · flowers

While Camellia sinensis is the tea plant, this is a floral camellia. Camellia flowers in a pretty pink at wildfilmsindia Jabarkhet gardens: Camellia related to tea plant

Uttarakhand·forest · wildlife

A female Dark Gray Bush Chat sits on vigil to ensure its nest is safe, finds a safe moment to approach ground nest.

Uttarakhand·hills · bazaar

With Common Hill Partridge or peora calling out across the hills, late winter mists rise up over Jabbarkhet bazaar onto the Landour ridge below Oakville and Ashton Court, now known as Hanifl Center of Woodstock School, Mussoorie.

Uttarakhand·hills · flowers

Foresters plant Rhododendron arboreum tree saplings at Jabbarkhet Himalayan forests of wildfilmsindia

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Fritillaria uva-vulpis grows at Jabbarkhet botanical collections of wildfilmsindia, in the Himalaya, in the spring of 2023.

Uttarakhand·birds · hills

A Yellow-naped Woodpecker's yellow-green throat feathers catch evening light, on Oak tree in the Himalaya, within the wildfilmsindia wildlife sanctuary in Uttarakhand, while a Darjeeling Pied Himalayan Woodpecker pecks at insects living wit…

Uttarakhand·birds · forest

This cute little thrush looks such a pretty site among the white flower clumps of this shrub in Jabbarkhet, Mussoorie, at the wildfilmsindia sanctuary.

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