Landour

Landour, Uttarakhand·hills · school

Chestnut-bellied Nuthatch in Landour. Is this a Sitta castanea or a cinnamoventris? The Chestnut-bellied Nuthatch (Sitta cinnamoventris) is a species of bird in the Sittidae family. It is found in the Indian Subcontinent.

Uttarakhand·birds · wildlife

The Great Barbet (Megalaima virens) is an Asian barbet. Barbets are a group of near passerine birds with a worldwide tropical distribution. They get their name from the bristles which fringe their heavy bills.

Uttarakhand·birds · forest

Scaly-bellied Green Woodpecker nesting in Landour, Mussoorie, India. After having foraged for larvae and other grubs from tree bark, the Woodpecker male (the father has a red crest) comes back and regurgitates it at the opening of the nest-…

Uttarakhand·snow · hills

Sister's Bazar, Landour, in deep snow! Oaks trees covered in powder. Deodars laden heavy with whiteness. Icycles melting off roof-tops. Cars completely obliterated with snow-cover. Trees hidden from view.

Uttarakhand·flowers · temple

Flowers in Landour. Can you identify this species with its gluey secretion below the flower, and commonly seen in Landour during the monsoon? It appears to be Commelina coelestis and not paludosa, what once used to be an ayurvedic medicinal…

Uttarakhand·hills

wildfilmsindia owns 28 acres of this forested flowering valley estate around Mussoorie, and uses it as a forest conservation hub.

Uttarakhand

Viewers - do help us identify these moths that we filmed in and around Landour in Uttarakhand, India.

Uttarakhand

Rhesus Macaques behaving like total brats at the hill station town of Landour. One of them has obviously been in a fight and has lost a part of his upper lip!

Uttarakhand·hills

Doma's Inn is a one of its kind guest house in Landour, known for its famous interior and food.

Uttarakhand·snow

Landour in the snow and cold. Freezing weather in Landour brings the temperature down to about -2 degrees Celcius.

Uttarakhand

Gray langurs or Hanuman langurs, the most widespread langurs of South Asia, are a group of Old World monkeys constituting the entirety of the genus Semnopithecus.

Uttarakhand·birds · hills

Great Hill Barbet on a wild pear tree in Landour. The Great Barbet (Megalaima virens) is an Asian barbet. Barbets are a group of near passerine birds with a worldwide tropical distribution.

Uttarakhand·hills · forest

Grey Bushchat female in the Himalaya, in Landour, Uttarakhand. The Grey Bush Chat (Saxicola ferreus) is a species of bird in the Muscicapidae family.

Uttarakhand·hills

Before the big pushta was made below St. Thomas' School's property and Prospect Point, the road was rather narrow and kept giving way after every monsoon.

Landour, Uttarakhand·hills · forest

A Himalayan Goral eats Quercus Oak leaves in the hills of Uttarakhand, at 7200 feet altitude at the Wilderness Orchard and botanical gardens near Landour.

Uttarakhand

The wind blows in Landour after the storm and it creates snowy atmosphere. The sunlight in the sky creates dark brown and orange shade in the clouds

Uttarakhand·snow

Heavy snowfall while sitting at Rokeby in Landour Cantonment in Mussoorie. The snow starts covering the leaves of the oak trees and the pathways.

Uttarakhand·flowers · hills

Hydrangea shrubs flowering in Landour, Uttarakhand, in the Indian Himalaya. Hydrangea or (common names hydrangea or hortensia) is a genus of 70-75 species of flowering plants native to southern and eastern Asia (China, Japan, Korea, the Him…

Uttarakhand·sport

A Himalayan Cricket or tidda takes a slow motion jump, at 400 frames per second, in Landour, Uttarakhand.

Uttarakhand·bazaar · hills

The Shoe Maker from Landour. The traditional process of shoe making! Hand-made pure leather boots being made from scratch at the famous shoe-maker of Landour bazaar, Mussoorie, Uttarakhand, India.

Uttarakhand·hills

A Himalayan glow-worm walking on a rock-face in Landour, Uttarakhand, in May 2014. A viewer tells us these are likely to be adult female glow-worm firefly (probably a Pyrocoelia species) .. i.e.

Uttarakhand·hills · temple

Wispy clouds swirl around the high precipitous ridge of Landour - the first real ridge of the Himalaya from the plains... Clouds in time lapse in Landour.

Uttarakhand·birds · hills

The Himalayan Woodpecker (Dendrocopos himalayensis) or Himalayan Pied Woodpecker is a species of bird in the Picidae family.