“Himalayas”

wildlife · forest

A cautious alert Kakar or Barking Deer steps forth through the open oak forest, followed shortly after by a younger female and then a young male Barker Muntjac. The white-fringed brown tail is noteworthy on the kakar.

Uttarakhand·hills · snow

The majestic beauty of Jaonli Peak, seen from the peaceful forests of Jabarkhet near Mussoorie. Under a clear blue sky, the snow-covered Himalayan mountains stand tall, glowing in the sunlight.

Himachal Pradesh·hills · river

Pinjore to Manali chopper flight, Himachal Pradesh. The Wilderness Films chopper-cam films the Pinjore to manali helicopter flight.

birds · wildlife

Black crested Tit : The black-crested tit (Periparus ater melanolophus), also known as the spot-winged tit, is a bird in the Paridae family. It is now usually considered a subspecies of the coal tit.

forest

The red panda (Ailurus fulgens, lit. "shining cat"), is a small arboreal mammal native to the eastern Himalayas and southwestern China and related to raccoons, skunks and weasels.

Uttarakhand·hills · forest

Warm evening light on the deodar and oak forests as seen from wildfilmsindia's Jabbarkhet Estate in Mussoorie, as the day turns to night with the skyline ridge of Surkhanda Devi temple, Dhanolti and Kanatal going up to Chamba and the hills…

hills · forest

Beautiful green mountains and valleys of Uttarakhand, India where two women are doing agriculture work as agriculture is the backboned of Uttarakhand.

forest · hills

Deodar forests are forests dominated Cedrus Deodara and are found in Western Himalayas from Gandak river in central Nepal to Hindukush in Afghanistan.

hills · music

A Rufous Sibia perches tentatively on oak twig, looks around cautiously, its orange-rufous back aflame in the winter sun. It's call gives this bird its onomatopoeic name of Three Cheers.

hills · flowers

This serene wide shot captures the lush foothills of the Himalayas, where a dense mix of mountain trees forms a textured green canopy stretching across the landscape.

birds · wildlife

A cheery little Streaked Laughing Thrush sits on a branch in a forest in the Himalayas. With a tone of familiarity, we have nick-named this common and friendly mountain bird as a 'Laughie'.

forest · music

The black-throated bushtit (Aegithalos concinnus), also known as the black-throated tit, is a very small passerine bird in the family Aegithalidae.

Uttarakhand·hills · forest

Grey Bushchat female in the Himalaya, in Landour, Uttarakhand. The Grey Bush Chat (Saxicola ferreus) is a species of bird in the Muscicapidae family.

Uttarakhand·hills · forest

As dawn breaks over Jabarkhet, Mussoorie, the Himalayan landscape slowly awakens under the first light of day. Soft golden tones appear along the horizon, gradually illuminating forested ridgelines and distant mountain slopes.

Uttarakhand·birds · hills

A Verditer Flycatcher on an Oak tree in Landour. Two Saint Bernard dogs (a puppy and a full grown dog) being walked in Landour, Uttarakhand, along with a Himalayan sheep dog - a Tibetan Mastiff.

flowers · hills

This footage captures a magnificent Rhododendron tree in full bloom, its canopy richly covered in vibrant red flowers, while the ground beneath is beautifully carpeted with freshly fallen blossoms.

Uttarakhand·hills · forest

A Tortoiseshell Butterfly on a granitic rock at the wildfilmsindia butterfly sanctuary in the Uttarakhand Himalaya, around Landour.

Uttarakhand·forest · hills

The most flamboyant of all Himalayan blooms, at least in terms of size and quantity, is surely the Rhododendron arboreum. Found across the Himalaya, the size of the Rhodo trees in wildfilmsindia's protected forests is truly remarkable.

hills · forest

A rainbow comes visiting at wildfilmsindia sanctuary in the Himalaya while we were enjoying the rain in the Jabbarkhet orchard in Uttarakhand.

wildlife · forest

The dark grey-Bushchat (Saxicola ferreus) is a species of bird in the Muscicapidae family. It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam.

birds · wildlife

This bird is known as the Black-capped Sibia or the Rufous Sibia which is its new name.The scientific name of the bird is Heterophasia capistrata. It's roughly the size of a bulbul and is around 21 cms. long.

Uttarakhand·hills · snow

Snow-covered summit of Mt. Jaonli (also spelled Jonli), a prominent Himalayan peak located in the Garhwal region of Uttarakhand, India.

forest · flowers

Deodar forests are forests dominated Cedrus Deodara and are found in Western Himalayas from Gandak river in central Nepal to Hindukush in Afghanistan. An oak is a tree or shrub in the genus Quercus, having approximately 600 extant species.

wildlife · birds

A Black-headed Jay (Garrulus lanceolatus) perched among dense, dry branches in its natural Himalayan forest habitat.