“Himalayas”

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.

flowers

is a beautiful tree with a broad, shady crown, found widespread in Tropical Himalayas (Punjab to Nepal), India, Ceylon, Burma, Thailand, Indo-China, Malaysia. This tree is mostly noticed because of its bright red leaves when they are new.

forest · flowers

Male Kaleej Pheasant beaks around in the leaf litter, with the odd Rhododendron petal and fallen flowers, displaying to a nearby female, establishing territory.

Uttarakhand·flowers

Spring-time garden Crocus lilies spring forth from the dry winter soil, at Jabbarkhet botanical arboretum in the western Himalaya.

Uttarakhand·flowers

Lovely sound fo buzzing bees, all busy as a bee. Joyous Shirley Red Poppy flowers blooming in flul force, with bees creating a buzzing rhapsody, at the Jabbarkhet botanical collections of wildfilmsindia in the western Himalaya.

monsoon · hills

Grown with seed provided by the Meconopsis Group of the UK, this is Meconopsis integrifolia ex Zheduo Shan, with reflective rain drops accumulated on hairy leaves, after a late winter - early spring shower at the wildfilmsindia botanical co…

Uttarakhand·birds · flowers

As a Maroon Oriole calls - or rather whistles - out aloud and a Verditer Flycatcher trills nearby, it's time for a Rhododendron floral nectar feast for this lovely, reclusive and rarely seen bird - the Rusty cheeked Scimitar Babbler is a lo…

Uttarakhand·hills · flowers

A Grey drongo sits around waiting for insect feed from insects visiting the Himalayan Horse Chestnut or Aesculus indica flowers at the wildfilmsindia sanctuary in the Himalaya.

hills · flowers

A sea of rarely seen Himalayan wildflowers in the cold valley of the Garhwal Himalaya with matured seeds ready for the next year's flowering season. A field of white-cotton like matured seeds cover the valley surface near a small brook.

forest · flowers

The rushing Yumthang chhu passes through the thick temperate broad-leaved forests of Dombang near Yumthang in north Sikkim. Larch and other confiders admix with a range of high altitude vegetation.

flowers · industry

This Yucca aloifolia or Yucca flower stands almost 6ft high, full of whitish colored flower. The stem covered with buds of flowers weighs almost around 4kgs.

flowers

Garden Anemone de caen flowers in red and white, with cottony seed heads drying off and dispersing in the wind. A Cicada calls out in the summer sun.

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.

flowers · hills

See how the pollen has amply dusted off on the back of this beetle which feeds within a Crocus or Rain Lily bloom at the wildfilmsindia botanical arboretum in Uttarakhand.

Uttarakhand·flowers · hills

Ranunculus or Persian Buttercup flowers pop out in brilliant colours flowers and enormous sized buds at Motidhar around Mussoorie, even as a Blue-throated Barbet calls out throatily across the valley, and white and yellow Feezia bloom in a…

Uttarakhand·hills · flowers

Pretty in pink: More Himalayan wild Cherry blossom in this video than Rufous Sibia, but the bird is avisiting for insects and nectar The Rufous Sibia, Black-capped Sibia or the Three Cheers bird has smart blue wings with a rufous-brown body…

flowers · hills

Meconopsis paniculata or Himalayan yellow poppy growing wild on a Himalayan slope in north Sikkim, as well as Oriental garden Lily : Two yellow stunners Meconopsis paniculata in Sikkim Himalaya, seen in end Jun 2002 with droplets of monsoon…

river · hills

The blue-green glacial icy melt waters and the Inula daisies in flower along the shores of this high altitude trans Himalayan lake make for an other-worldly vision of the old India with a Himalaya that was unsullied.

flowers

Torch Lily flowers or Red Hot Pokers start out orange and turn a deeper orange-red at wildfilmsindia Motidhar Birds and bees love the nectar on our Kniphofia flowers in the western Himalaya! With a Grey-winged Blackbird calling, it is summ…

flowers · monsoon

The first Rain lily of the season is special, even though it is followed by thousands more! See this one open up in time lapse...

industry · flowers

Musa velutina is a vertically-growing pink banana type strange pretty plant, seen in Latpanchar, in India's West Bengal. Musa velutina, the hairy banana or pink banana, is a diploid species of wild banana.

Uttarakhand·flowers · hills

Rupin Dang doing piece-to-camera about Rhododendron arboreum trees on the WFIL estate in the Himalaya. Himalayan Rhododendron trees in full bloom in Wilderness Film India's Jabbarkhet Estate, Mussoorie in the Himalaya.