“monsoon”

monsoon · coastline

Camera captured a slow motion shot of rain pouring down during the monsoon season in India. The monsoon season in India brings along a quite heavy rainfall along the west coast between June and September whereas the eastern coast observes r…

livestock · monsoon

Rain drizzling in the middle of monsoon at a village in Odisha. Bony and emaciated domestic cattle are also grazing inside the field full of Taro plants. Notice the haystack which is like a fodder reserve for cattle in leaner months.

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A Common Jay butterfly or Graphium doson is filmed on neem leaves in late monsoon in Delhi. These are common but spectacular butterflies with translucent turquoise wing bands and black margins.

Uttarakhand·flowers · monsoon

Butterflies are drawn to monsoon flowering garden run-wild Dahlia flowers at the wildfilmsindia gardens at Jabbarkhet, Mussoorie. Help us identify the species of titli you see here!

Panna, Madhya Pradesh·river · monsoon

The waters of the Ken River rush through Panna National Park, in the peak of monsoon flow, as they make their way through thick forests and rocky plateaux near Khajuraho town in Madhya Pradesh.

highway · monsoon

Delhi traffic is simply crazy! When the monsoon wrath falls, the potholes fill up, the roads are waterlogged in the national capital. Motorists take the roads with less driving issues.

Ajmer, Rajasthan·monsoon · livestock

With their buffalos for company, a group of Rajasthani village women walk in the monsoon rain, towards their village near Ajmer. One girl is particularly tall, even for a Rajasthani. A big black goat comes along, too.

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Even deadly killers such as these mongoose (surely not mongeese as plural!?)have ecto-parasites and need to scratch the botheration, they get disturbed by mosquitoes and their pups play-fight together under the jasmine bush which hides thei…

monsoon · forest

Murky clouds over the Delhi sky as monsoon arrives in North India. Clouds rolling into dark balls of condensed water. Gush of wind and the open forest at our Wilderness Orchard in New Delhi is drenched in a downpour.

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The undersides of the teak tree leaves can be seen as they get ruffled by rushing winds between their leaves, shedding their multitudes of delicate white flowers, and even breaking off the odd branch, as the monsoon winds play around with t…

flowers · hills

A melange of monsoon time wild flowers from the Wilderness Orchard and botanical gardens in the Himalaya (in order) - Begonia dioica and picta, Roscoea purpurea is a wild ground orchid of sorts, wild ginger, green seed pods of Arisaema wall…

monsoon · hills

An after storm cloudy monsoon view from the middle Himalaya, looking down to the plains of north India.

monsoon · flowers

Reddish-brown earthworms moving across a patch of damp, gritty soil after rainfall. Their segmented bodies stretch and contract as they travel over the wet ground, with small particles of sand and gravel clinging to their moist skin.

monsoon · hills

Brilliant Himalayan cloud movements: Late monsoon afternoon time lapse of clouds at wildfilmsindia's Jabbarkhet mountains in Uttarakhand. And then we head into sunset! Late afternoon time lapse of clouds at wildfilmsindia Jabbarkhet

hills · monsoon

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 Dodital lake and into the bowl of Banderpunch.

flowers · monsoon

A range of colours of garden escape Gladiolus flowers, include this lovely yellow, grow wild during the monsoon season, at our wildfilmsindia Motidhar Estate in the Uttarakhand Himalaya.

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We're not sure about the name of the blue beetle. Help us identify the species. The video is from Jabberkhet, Mussoorie during the monsoon of 2019.

monsoon · highway

The monsoon rain bringing its share of madness here in Bhagalpur, Bihar. Villagers struggle to cross the flooded roads as they walk towards the higher ground. Men with bicycles, their personal belongings cross the flooded road.

birds · monsoon

Monsoon bounty from underground! A mouthful of termites... This Myna must have a voracious appetite or i it trying to feed its chicks? Perched on a branch, a Common Myna (Acridotheres tristis) with its beak filled with Flying Termites, the…

birds · monsoon

A White-throated Laughing Thrush preens in monsoon time at wildfilmsindia Motidhar sanctuary, even as a Rufous or Black-capped Sibia calls out in this clear quiet mountain audioscape, defined only by the calls of cicadas and tits, with a di…

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As the monsoon rains beat down on north India, the flying termites emerge from their underground lairs, and promptly get snapped up by waiting and hungry House Geckos in and around houses.

Uttarakhand·flowers · monsoon

Pink Rain Lilies bloom beautifully in monsoon Zephyranthus profusion at Jabbarkhet botanical arboretum, blossoming as soon as the first summer rains come in, against a brown backdrop of drying grasses.

monsoon · highway

Flooded forest stream inside Rajaji where the new Dehradun expressway is being constructed within a national park, disturbing the flow of a forest stream.

monsoon · highway

Safdarjung Hospital - All India Institute flyover area gets submerged in heavy monsoon downpour