“Himalayas”

hills · forest

Is this Goral mama prancing around with her kids as they walk past our camera trap on a sunny Himalayan ridge? Or has she been bothered by an insect? As the mists rise and fall, this wild mountain goat flicks off bugs and looks around for d…

forest · birds

A family group of Slaty-headed Parakeet or Psittacula himalayana are filmed hogging on Cedrus deodara seeds, after digging them out of the deodar cones, fresh from the tree at our Wilderness Orchard and forests in Uttarakhand.

Assam·wildlife · forest

Tigers eating remains of wild water Buffalo at Kaziranga National Park in Assam. Kaziranga National Park is a national park in the Golaghat and Nagaon districts of the state of Assam, India.

forest · hills

Cute little long-tailed Broadbill has a bath in our Bindal stream at wildfilmsindia Motidhar sanctuary, and then heads in to an Oak tree to shake off the water and dry off.

birds · forest

The Collared Pygmy Owlet has a very large range occurring in the Himalayas Source : Wikipedia The tiny Collared Owlet is Asia's smallest owl species: See it hunched up in the winter cold With 'eyes' at the back of its head, this Ullu actual…

birds · wildlife

Long-tailed Broadbill in Latpanchar: This bird's sharp green and yellow don't always lend to good camouflage! A Brainfever or Common Hawk-Cuckoo calls in the distance.

forest

Lengda - as they are known in Garhwal area of Uttarakhand, or fern fronds, also known as fiddleheads in north America, make for highly nutritious iron rich forest produce.

Uttarakhand·hills · forest

Winter wild pears are an attraction for this Black-capped Sibia or Rufous Sibia at wildfilmsindia Sunning itself on a winter's day, in the warm sun, is this Sibia, at our wildfilmsindia estate.

wildlife · forest

The smartly attired black eye striped Dark Gray Bush Chat sits on a tiny twig and trills, while flicking up its tail with each trill.

Uttarakhand·birds · wildlife

It's summer time in the forests of the lower Himalaya, and also breeding time for birds... The 'Three Cheers' bird is the erstwhile Black-capped Sibia now known as the Rufous Sibia, seen here in the company of a White-cheeked Bulbul, a voca…

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.

wildlife · birds

Hear the vocalization of the Broadbill in this video! What a unusual combination of bright green and bright yellow? For a bird that needs to be camouflaged in low foothill and low Himalayan forests, that seems like an unlikely combination o…

snow · forest

Tourists walk down snow covered hills of Auli as an Indian Army Truck passes by. A man rings bell on top of a building partially covered with the snow.

Uttarakhand·forest · monsoon

Misty monsoon Himalayan rain-forest-like forest at wildfilmsindia Jabbarkhet forests around Mussoorie in the Uttarakhand Himalaya.

forest

We found this massive tree with a Hobbit hollow inside it, in a thick forested area of Dombang in north Sikkim - must be 500 years old! Four people can stand within the tree hollow! Looking up to the crown, there is a vertical chute within…

forest

Kalij Pheasants with their sprightly white kalgi preen their feathers and dig in the oak leafed forest floor for insects and worms.

forest · hills

Male threatens female away from prize worm she has found: Kaleej Pheasant couple beak around in grass Male and female Kalij Pheasant couple root around in the forest leafy under storey, at Motidhar sanctuary of wildfilmsindia, with the red…

birds · forest

A Grey Drongo digs into a juicy cicada, holding it with its left foot, and pecking deep for morsels with its sharp beak. It seems the marauding Jungle Myna has come to nest in the middle Himalaya, after all.

Uttarakhand·hills · forest

A forest fire lit by a careless villager or tourist rises up from the valley below, carried by strong winds, and climbs to Mussoorie where it lights up many hills and destroys hundreds of acres of Himalayan forests.

Uttarakhand·forest

Indian tourists carry their skiing gear move towards skiing area to learn in Auli. Auli is nestled in the lap of snow-capped peaks of Garhwal Himalayas, in the Chamoli district of Uttarakhand, near the world famous religious shrine of Badri…

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…

hills · forest

Himanshu Upadhyaya's Holm Farm Heritage in Ranikhet must rank as one of the finest Himalayan home-stay destinationss, so head there on your next visit! A lovely old restored British home around Ranikhet cantonment town in Kumaon.

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.

forest · aerial

Thick forest along the Sarada river along Tanakpur's sub-Himalayan Bastiya forest belt in Champawat district of Uttarakhand, as seen aerially, from the air, in this aerial view.