“Himalayas”

Uttarakhand·hills · forest

A raptor rides on thermals in front of Woodstock School's Hanifl Center in Mussoorie. Isn't it fun to see how vultures fly and ride thermals of wind in the Himalaya, with the tips of their wings upturned like fingers, and no flapping at all…

Himachal Pradesh·hills · forest

Flying along with the bikers in Manali in Himachal Pradesh. The cycling expedition in Himalaya. One can see the bikers cycling on the twisted roods of the Himachal Himalaya.

hills · forest

In the darkness of twilight, a Kaleej Pheasant pair comes down cautiously to drink from our Bindal - Rispana stream in the western Himalaya.

Uttarakhand·birds · hills

A Blue-throated Barbet nests at wildfilmsindia bird sanctuary in western Himalaya, at Motidhar valley around Mussoorie. A Himalayan or Hill Barbet also calls clearly in the clip, so it must be sitting on an adjacent tree.

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.

monsoon · hills

Its raining cats and dogs takes on a new meaning in the Himalayan monsoon. When the rains simply don't stop for weeks on end, maybe the cats and dogs need to be replaced by larger animal beings! A melange of rainy season storminess, monsoon…

hills · flowers

On the flanks of the eastern Himalayas lies Sikkim. It's seven thousand three hundred square kilometers is interlaced with jungle clad ridges and deep ravines and through this spectacular terrain the raging torrents of mountain streams and…

Uttarakhand·hills · forest

Himalayan Morel mushrooms or gucchi / guchhi grow giant in size at wildfilmsindia sanctuary in Uttarakhand Himalaya.

monsoon · hills

As seen from the wildfilmsindia wildlife sanctuary and arboretum in the western Himalaya, monsoon clouds flow across the mountains, as they exit the Himalaya and India, at tail-end of the rainy season.

forest · hills

The more drab brown female and the blue-black and white male Kalij Pheasant hang out in our wildfilmsindia sanctuary in the western Himalaya.

Uttarakhand·hills · forest

Grey-winged Blackbird is one of India's finest songsters: Hear the lovely calls in the Himalaya A Grey winged Blackbird scrabbles around in the undergrowth at our wildfilmsindia sanctuary at Jabbarkhet, Uttarakhand.

Uttarakhand·hills · snow

A combination of sleet and snow falls on the shrubbery and middle Himalayan forests of our Himalayan wildlife sanctuary. January and February 2022 have seen profuse snowfall incidents across the western Himalaya.

flowers · hills

Rhododendron arboreum, popularly known as Burans or Lali Gurans, one of the most iconic flowering trees of the Himalayas.

hills · aerial

Mountain campsite nestled within the rugged Himalayan landscapes of Uttarakhand, India. Surrounded by dense pine and deodar forests, the sprawling campsite sits in a high-altitude clearing amid steep rocky terrain and dramatic mountain scen…

flowers · hills

Calanthe plantaginea is a beautiful and rare light lilac coloured flowering ground orchid found in the wildfilmsindia forests in the western Himalaya.

Uttarakhand·forest · hills

Forest Fire in the Himalaya: The new climate change reality of our mountains drying up in the long summer months, with fires caused by careless tourists throwing away lit cigarettes or villagers proactively causing fires hoping for a fresh…

Uttarakhand·hills · forest

A flock of Himalayan domestic sheep descend from the high Himalaya to over-winter around Mussoorie, in an open forest pasture for the cold months.

birds · wildlife

A gorgeous Blue Whistling Thrush (Myophonus caeruleus) resting peacefully on a mossy tree branch.

hills · village

Daily life in a mountain village in the Garhwal region of Uttarakhand, India. Local residents, including children and adults, are gathered outside a traditional hillside home overlooking terraced Himalayan slopes.

wildlife · birds

The erstwhile so-named Grey headed or the newly-named Canary Flycather nests on a mossy tree trunk with a nest carved into a sagging crook of a crevice on the trunk, and made out of moss itself, at the wildfilmsindia bird sanctuary in the w…

Uttarakhand·hills · forest

A pair of Rufous or Black-capped Sibia do a little jig on a water pipe to get a drink of clean water, and a Black-crowned Jay on a late winter day at the wildfilmsindia Jabbarkhet forest in the Uttarakhand Himalaya.

birds · hills

Sitting on a dead deodar tree branch, this most beautiful sky blue bird in the Himalaya is the Verditer Flycatcher as it trills out its call in the summer breeding season.

Uttarakhand·hills · monsoon

Retreating monsoon clouds billow over the Jabbarkhet ridge as seen at the tail end of the monsoon season, in early October 2021, as the clouds and winds head south once again...

aerial · hills

Buggyal meadows of Budha Madmaheshwar in Uttarakhand Himalaya, thick forest of Kedarnath Sanctuary, as seen aerially, from the air, in this aerial view.