Landour

Uttarakhand·monsoon · hills

wildfilmsindia estate hand and assistant manager Naresh harvests Agapanthus Lilies in the Himalayan monsoon at our gardens and arboreta in the Landour region... We follow him around as he amasses bunches of cut Lily stems.

Uttarakhand·snow · highway

A motorcycle has a tough time climbing the north face road on the Tehri access from Mussoorie, past Jabbarkhet. The road is skiddy, slushy and snowy wet, at once... Scooters and bikes all skid about as they try to climb along the road.

Uttarakhand·bazaar · architecture

The Tripathi house in Landour lies below the Doordarshan TV tower, as does a . red-roofed house located above Sister's Bazar and the Bakehouse Cafe.

Uttarakhand·wildlife · birds

Landour birds visit a flowering Horse Chestnut or Aesculus indica tree in the summer time, mostly Blackvein butterflies, as seen in slow motion flight. Landour birds visit flowering Horse Chestnut tree

Uttarakhand·hills · wildlife

A Streaked Laughing Thrush young one on a log. Cicadas call as we climb around Landour, en route the Chhaiyan Bamak valley of Garhwal, towards the peak of Bandarpunch or White Peak.

Uttarakhand·festival · bazaar

This footage showcases the CMYK Book Store stall at the Landour Christmas Mela in Landour, Mussoorie.

Uttarakhand·birds · hills

With the Common Hill Partridhe of Peora calling, and the sight of a Chestnut bellied Rock Thrush, truly a Himalayan bird straight out of one's childhood around Landour. The female is more drab compared to the colourful male.

Uttarakhand·flowers · hills

Giant Dutchmaster yellow and Tete a Tete Daffodils bloom in our wildfilmsindia gardens, at the advent of spring Daffodils all fragrant and fresh in the crisp spring-time late winter air, with Laughing Thrushes calling in our Motidhar forest…

Uttarakhand

Rhesus Macaque monkeys or bandars have family time, with de-ticking and lice removal in the summer sun. They preen and clean each other on a bright sunny day around Landour town in the western Himalaya.

Uttarakhand·flowers · farmland

The red stamens of the Kesar crocus from Spain are what are picked, dried and used as the super high value spice of kesar.

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.

Landour, Uttarakhand·birds · forest

Sleepy Broadbill goes into roosting mode, lulled by Great Barbet calls, in Uttarakhand Himalaya, at the wildfilmsindia sanctuary around Landour. Suddenly, something seems to wake it up and it goes into alert mode in no time at all.

Uttarakhand·wildlife · birds

This Zesterops palpebrosa on kashmal or Berberis aristata shrub is feeding on insects in Landour. This is the upper altitude range of the White-eye.

Uttarakhand·hills · flowers

In the serene hills of Landour, a breathtaking winterline sunset unfolds over the majestic Himalayan Mountains.

Uttarakhand·flowers

Homespun and Dutchmaster Daffodil flowers being harvested at wildfilmsindia Jabbarkhet gardens, in spring.

Uttarakhand·hills · flowers

In March 2023, wildfilmsindia's first Shimadaijin Tree Peony gave out its first flower, to much joy for observers! Tree Peony grows in the Himalaya: Paeonia Tree (Tree Peony) suffruticosa 'Shimadaijin' at the wildfilmsindia botanical collec…

Uttarakhand·flowers

Black Bulbuls get attracted to Cherry blossom around Landour: Insects and nectar a double draw.

Uttarakhand·hills · monsoon

Thick cloud cover moves in across the plains and into the higher mountains, with Surkhanda Devi and Dhanolti seen in the distance.

Uttarakhand·hills · music

Tentative at best, this Sibia cannot decide whether its coming or going, sitting or perching. It seems to be undecided about the next move.

Uttarakhand·snow

Heavy snowfall seen covering oak trees with a blanket of fresh snow in Landour, Mussoorie during the winter of 2011, as seen while dining at Emily's at Rokeby on the south face of the Landour Chukkar.

Uttarakhand·forest · hills

While we were camped out in the lower Himalaya, in search of the thought-to-be-extinct Mountain Quail, we came across this party of White-throated Laughing Thrush birds looking for insects in the under-storey of the forest at the Wilderness…

Uttarakhand·flowers · hills

With each spring day, a new colour of German Bearded Iris blooms at wildfilmsindia Jabbarkhet Back-lit Iris flower petals show their delicate structure, with veins, as Himalayan sunset glows behind Bearded iris grow aplenty during spring at…

Uttarakhand·flowers · farmland

Nodding yellow giant daffodils around Landour: Dutchmaster and Tete a Tete daffs at wildfilmsindia Jabbarkhet's arboretum and botanical gardens. Daffodil harvest time at Jabbarkhet: Spring-time in the wildfilmsindia Himalaya.