“monsoon”

aerial · temple

Mukhba temple priests prepare to despatch the Gangotri idol to the Gangotri temple prior to the doors or kapath opening in end April 2025, as seen aerially, in this aerial view, from the air.

Uttarakhand·flowers · hills

Bunches of run-wild Crocuses have taken over our early monsoon late summer hillsides at the Jabbarkhet botanical gardens of wildfilmsindia, overlooking the plains and the higher mountains of the Himalaya, as garden escapes that have got nat…

hills · river

Late monsoon cloud cover sheds ample rainfall to the already rich silt islands and river-banks of the Brahmaputra valley, leading to a super rich agrarian bowl in Assam.

hills · village

Driving through Meghalaya offers a striking blend of natural beauty and rural life. As vehicles move along gently winding hill roads, low-hanging clouds drift across the landscape, sometimes settling over lush green agricultural fields that…

birds · hills

A shock of Verditer blue gives away the male Verditer Flyatcher in the Himalaya Verditer Flycatcher has a lovely trilling call, male is deep sky blue while female is a lighter blue Deep sky blue Verditer Flycatcher at wildfilmsindia Motidha…

birds · wildlife

Having just fledged from their nests in the early monsoon season, these White-throated Laughing Thrush chicks frantically open and close their feathers to attract Mum's attention, to be fed: Laughing Thrushes.

Uttarakhand·hills

Is this a snail or a slug? What species is it? Seen at 6300 feet altitude in the western Himalayan region of Mussoorie, in the peak monsoon season. Help us identify the same!

Tamil Nadu·hills

Thick Nilgiri hill forests on the crests of hills above small towns outside Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu.

Uttarakhand·industry · monsoon

Near the Tehri dam, one can still see vestigaes of the Uttarakhand floods that ravaged this valley of the Ganges some years back.

river · forest

The red-base jezebel butterfly (Delias pasithoe) is found from Sikkim to Arunachal Pradesh, the hills of the Northeast of India. It flies from lower hills to 2,100m from February to March and July to December.

Uttarakhand·birds · hills

Deep sky blue Verditer Flycatcher at wildfilmsindia Jabbarkhet: A prettier Himalayan bird there isn't! Verditer Flycatcher quivers its tail as it delivers it's lovely trilling call! Deep blue bird catches monsoon light It's tail quivers as…

Uttarakhand·school · hills

Looking down on a clear post rainy monsoon day from Jabbarkhet, one can see beyond the Shivaliks, and across the Doon valley. The hills of Rajaji National Park are clearly visible. Closer at hand are St.

Uttarakhand·hills · flowers

In monsoon profusion, this Gladiolus in pink blooms as a garden-escape run-wild at the wildfilmsindia Motidhar estate at Pari Tibba - the Fairy hill around Mussoorie, among the Agapanthus flower fields.

Uttarakhand·hills · forest

A Kalij Pheasant breeding pair of male and female birds forage for insects and seeds among ferns on a moist early monsoon hillside at the wildfilmsindia estate in Motidhar, Mussoorie.

snow · hills

Himalayan snowpack runs deep on the Jogin and Gangotri peak ranges, as seen from Rudragaira, with Auden's Col in distance. The hanging glaciers on Jogin are rather awe-inspiring. See the lovely snow field on the summit ridge.

temple · hills

The clean mountain stream waters of the Kosi river flow into the region of the resorts around Ramnagar town, with a dog crossing the stream's rapids.

Uttarakhand·hills · river

What frog species is this middle Himalayan altitude mendhak? We filmed this at our wildfilmsindia wetlands in the middle Himalaya, around Pari Tibba Estate and Motidhar, along the origin of the Bindal-Rispana nadi, in the monsoon of 2022.

hills · monsoon

A brilliant cloudy sky paints so many live moods akin to the most fleeting emotions and thoughts of a human being.

farmland · hills

Farmers at an Organic farm in Maharashtra gets busy to remove weed and undergrowth from the tent of climber vegetables. A mixture of different vegetables are grown together in the monsoon.

Uttarakhand·flowers · hills

Butterflies pay a visit to a Red hot poker flowering stem at wildfilmsindia Jabbarkhet in the Himalaya A Stag beetle explores a Red Hot Poker or Kniphofia blooming head at the wildfilmsindia Himalayan botanical garden, with a Green-backed T…

Uttarakhand·flowers · hills

These Dahlia flowers are competing with wild Himalayan flowers and cover by seeding and spreading themselves in the wild, as garden escapes dating back to British times.

Himachal Pradesh·hills · snow

Spiti Valley, surrounded on all sides by the soaring snowy mountain walls of the high Himalaya, Spiti is situated India’s northern border with Tibet in the state of Himachal Pradesh.

hills · snow

A lone yellow tent with smaller tents pitched on the ablation valley along a glacial shelf with the glacier separated by just a small ridge. A small glacial melt water lake is located at the edge of the moraine.

hills · river

Summit ridge of White Peak, Bandarpunch, on a clear winter's day, as seen from Bamsaru Khal As the clouds clear, the peak of Bandarpunch is revealed in all its glory, in the Garhwal Himalaya range, as the wildfimsindia team treks beyond Dod…