“Himalayas”

hills · birds

Is that first shot a Ferrugineous Flycatcher perhaps. If so, it may be a new record for the Garhwal Himalaya! Rufous Sibia sits in warm evening light, flits around on fungus ridden branch in middle Uttarakhand A plump little Rufous Sibia fl…

hills · forest

A plump little Rufous Sibia fluffs out its feathers, preens and enjoys the winter sun at wildfilmsindia Motidhar sanctuary Rufous Sibia is the new name what we always called the Black-capped Sibia or Three Cheers! Winter wild pears are an a…

forest · hills

Spot the critter! Cicada in green and black against moss on an oak tree trunk : almost perfect camouflage for this loud insect whose call reverberates through mountain forests.

hills · forest

After a bath in our Rispana stream, a Rufous Sibia carouses with preening White-throated Laughing Thrushes in a thicket or shrubbery, as cicadas call out loud, at Motidhar forest Rufous Sibia is the new name what we always called the Black-…

forest · wildlife

Dark-Grey Bush Chat male approaches chicks with insect feed in its beak, at wildfilmsindia sanctuary Bird eating insect Uttarakhand A male Dark Grey Bush Chat nests in wildfilmsindia sanctuary in the Himalaya, and successfully fetches grubs…

hills · forest

At the Wilderness Orchard and botanical gardens owned by wildfilmsindia in the western Himalaya, a Goral or wild mountain goat looks up in surprise at all the noise and disturbance caused by a group of visiting langur monkeys.

forest

Time-lapse of bearded Iris Bruno flowers in the western Himalayas of Uttarakhand in spring-time Iris season at wildfilmsindia sanctuary.

Uttarakhand·forest · hills

As the day breaks, the folds of ranges stretching away into the eastern horizon, across the Himalaya, look towards Surkhanda Devi and Dhanolti, Kanatal and Chamba, while clouds float in. ..

Himachal Pradesh·railway · aerial

Shimla Toy train enters a tunnel and exits through pine forests. Flying over the Kalka to Shimla Toy train, the train runs like a snake in the Himalayas. The train travels along mostly mountanious route from Kalka to Shimla.

hills · forest

What this lovely cold water emanate from Himalayan springs, and flow through pine and deodar forests, and fall into this rocky bowl in the Rohru region of Himachal, refreshinghly, on a warm summer day when the sun beats down hardly.

river · forest

At our wildfilmsindia Himalayan bird sanctuary, see the lovely deep blue iridescent shades in a White-capped Redstart's plumage as it hunts for insects along the modest Bindal-Rispana stream where it starts out deep in our protected oak and…

forest · hills

With White-created Laughing Thrushes calling out with their bubbly songs, a female Kalij Pheasant ascends into Oak tree for her nightly roost, eats lichens and moss before settling in Come night time, and the Kalij Pheasants in our forest a…

forest · hills

Have you ever seen a pigeon so green in colour? This Himalayan Kokla Wedge-tailed Green Pigeon is the real deal! A Kokla Green Pigeon couple sit in their nest.

wildlife · hills

A female leopard listens out carefully for an alarmed and calling Muntjac, Kakar or Barking Deer, even as a wild cat searches for amouse, and a feamle nursing Wild boar with prominent teats gambols through our forest, and get caught in our…

forest · birds

Long-tailed Broadbill is a rarely-seen bird in Garhwal, as it is more of an eastern Himalayan species. It wags its tail while sitting on a pine tree at our wildfilmsindia conservation lands in Uttarakhand.

forest · wildlife

The Black Baza also trips over and loses balance as it tries to poach on ants on its branch, in addition to the green locust treat in its talons! This Black Baza eats ants that pass on a small tree branch, all the while consuming a rodent t…

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.

Uttarakhand·forest · hills

Finally, some fresh crunchy oak leaves in summer-time after the hot period and forest fires that deprived the resident species of proper fodder...

forest · birds

This is an unusual sighting as this raptor is generally found below 5000 feet in altitude. Here, it is sighted at 7300 feet in the western Himalaya, in a mixed Oak forest.

Uttarakhand·hills · forest

A real mountain predator - the Mountain Hawk Eagle sits here with its jaunty head crest atop Chir Pine tree at the wildfilmsindia forested Estate at Motidhar in Mussoorie in the Uttarakhand Himalaya.

forest · hills

Have you ever seen a pigeon so green in colour? This Himalayan Kokla Wedge-tailed Green Pigeon is the real deal! A Kokla Green Pigeon couple sit in their nest.

Uttarakhand·hills · forest

Grey-winged Blackbird shyly skulks on Himalayan wild pear tree and feeds on fruit, while keeping its fine whistling voice silent! Grey-winged Blackbird is one of India's finest songsters, even as it silently pecks around for insects A Grey…

Uttarakhand·hills · forest

Grey winged Blackbird has an orange beak, and skulks in walnut tree at Pari Tibba Estate, in Motidhar, Mussoorie Grey-winged Blackbird is one of India's finest songsters: Hear the lovely calls in the Himalaya A Grey winged Blackbird scrabbl…

Uttarakhand·hills · river

The distant plains of India show to the south, at dawn, even as the dark and enormous scree slopes and moraines of the glaciers south of Trishul rise up above Roopkund Lake.