Landour

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.

Uttarakhand·birds

Verditer Flycatcher at its nest-hole in Landour, Mussoorie. The verditer flycatcher (Eumyias thalassinus) is an Old World flycatcher found in the Indian subcontinent, especially in the Lower Himalaya.

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·music · hills

Mesmerising performance by The Lyres from Woodstock School in Landour. Yet not out of school, these young prodigies of Mussoorie's own Woodstock have a jazz combo, the choir consisting of vocals, bass, piano, guitar, drums, trumpet, trombon…

Uttarakhand·birds · wildlife

A Dark-throated Thrush (Turdus ruficollis) investigates a hollow in an old Maple tree-trunk in Landour, Mussoorie. It must have found larvae or grubs therein...

Uttarakhand·birds · hills

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

Uttarakhand·hills

Making of long boots by Chaudhary Shoe Maker, Landour. Shoe making: Traditional process. Hand-made pure leather boots being made from scratch at the famous shoe-maker of Landour bazaar, Mussoorie, Uttarakhand, India.

Uttarakhand·hills

Landour, a small cantonment town contiguous with Mussoorie, is about 35 km (22 mi) from the city of Dehradun in the northern state of Uttarakhand in India.

Uttarakhand

Uttarakhand·temple · architecture

Church above Landour Villa, near ITM. The ITM is soon to be replaced by the DIAT in Landour contonment! Mussoorie district, Uttarakhand state, India.

Landour, Uttarakhand·birds · wildlife

Collared Pygmy Owlet on an Quercus oak tree in Landour, Uttarakhand. Glaucidium brodiei resides across the Himalaya and north-east India. it is really tiny and barred heavily.

Landour, Uttarakhand·birds · wildlife

A Dark-throated Thrush (Turdus ruficollis) investigates a hollow in an old Maple tree-trunk in Landour, Mussoorie. It must have found larvae or grubs therein...