“Himalayas”

hills · snow

Tree Pipit is a winter visitor that also breeds in North-West Himalayas. Buffish brown to greyish ground color to upperparts (lacking greenish-olive cast of the Olive-backed pipit), and buffish edges to wing feathers.

Uttarakhand·monsoon · hills

Cloud cover envelopes the mountains around wildfilmsindia's conservation lands at Jabbarkhet in the western Himalaya. Monsoon mist, mountain rainy season cloud cover, time lapses of epic Himalayan proportions.

hills · forest

Tortoiseshell Butterfly suns itself, wings outspread and quivering in order to dry them. This leads us to the next thought - Has it just been born? That would explain the quivering and the perfect wing condition! Seen at the wildfilmsindia…

hills · aerial

A large trekking campsite spread across the rugged alpine terrain of Kuari Pass in Uttarakhand.

festival · village

When one village stones another! Team orange at Bagwal festival of Devidhura Champawat, Uttarakhand With much revelry and camaraderie, the grotesque stone pelting festival gets off to a start as villagers converge at the Bagwal Festival gro…

Uttarakhand·forest · hills

Orthetrum sabina, commonly known as the green marsh hawk or slender skimmer, is seen delicately perched on a fresh green leaf in Jabarkhet Nature Reserve, near Mussoorie.

hills · snow

This alpine footage follows a small group of experienced mountaineering enthusiasts undertaking the Chaukhamba Col Trek in the Garhwal Himalayas, India.

hills · forest

Short banded Sailer titli at wildfilmsindia butterfly sanctuary in the Himalaya Neptis columella, the short banded sailer, is a species of nymphalid butterfly found in South and Southeast Asia. Upperside black, with white markings.

Uttarakhand·hills · flowers

With the sunshine playing its magic on the hillside behind, this peony slowly opens on our hillsides around Mussoorie. Coral colourd Peony opening in slow motion at Jabbarkhet botanical collections in the Himalaya

hills · river

These women are entering into a religious trance phase, thanks to the drumming and the festive atmosphere in the village. They jump with their arms in the air, and lose control of their immediate surroundings and reality.

hills

A mason and tile layer get to work with a precision job! Kajaria Eternity full bodied grey tiles are installed in a balcony in the Himalaya A job that requires great precision and caution! A workman prepares the base after mixing cement, pl…

hills · flowers

Anemone in a deep pink, Arum Lilies by the thousands, daffodils of many kinds, with Thrushes calling in our forested bowl. Peoniflorum tulips start to bloom in spring at the Pari Tibba botanical gardens of wildfilmsindia in Uttarakhand.

wildlife · birds

What a sight! What an absolutely fabulous sight of wild birds coming together in such numbers to escape the harsher climes up north, in warmer balmier wintery India.

monsoon · forest

Watering time for the trees and forest, as clouds roll in at dusk! The monsoon is ripe for arrival and water shedding over the Water Towers of the world - the Himalaya! Monsoon clouds roll in over wildfilmsindia forests at Jabbarkhet, Uttar…

farmland · hills

Karaknath black murghis have black blood. Did you know that? They are super healthy to eat and so are their eggs, it is said. See a Kadaknath murghi farm - chicken farm at Nainbagh Ghorakhuri in the Himalaya, in Uttarakhand.

Uttarakhand·flowers · monsoon

Rain lilies or Crocus Lily Zephyranthus is a member of the Amaryllis family. They are so named because they often bloom a few days after rain. They are usually planted in groups and in full bloom, they are quite the sight.

Uttarakhand·hills

A large Saint Bernard dog in the Himalaya, seen here in the hill-station town of Mussoorie. This one has a Hindu tikka on its forehead! It scratches itself and then barks, in boredom. The St.

farmland

Agricultural field amidst fields and meadows of the Himalayas. The sunny days and the silent nights make this look like a peaceful place to live in.

hills · livestock

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 · livestock

There is active human conflict in conservation within Rajaji National Park. Gujjar cow-herders are allowed to live within the sanctuary area, with their cattle potentially carrying bovine diseases that can infect wild animals.

Uttarakhand·lake · river

Summer rain at Dodital Lake beyond Uttarakashi, as a tourist family enjoys seeing droplets of rain falling on the high altitude lake in the Uttarakhand Himalaya.

Madhya Pradesh·monsoon · hills

Paddy fields and monsoon magic in India: Rainy season profusion brings bounties aplenty for South Asia.

Uttarakhand·monsoon · hills

Look at that damselfly flex its thorax in that fabulously contorted fashion! And see hlicoptr dragonflies take off vertically like VTOL's.

hills · forest

Large Cicada nestles among poisonous foxglove leaves at wildfilmsindia sanctuary in Himalaya, September 2023. Possibly having imbibed some poison, it then turns upside down.