“Himalayas”

Uttarakhand·flowers · hills

Painted Lady butterflies (Vanessa cardui) suck nectar from garden escape not-gone-wild Dahlia flowers on a sunny day in Jabbarkhet, Uttarakhand, at the wildfilmsindia wildlife sanctuary.

snow

Take a sneak peek into the activities while climbing the Garhwal Himalayas during the onset of winter.

hills

What steady focus and concentration, this caterpillar chows down on a ginger leaf, meticulously trying to finish the leaf and damage the plan, to ensure its own existence! What species of caterpillar would this be? A butterfly one, perhaps?…

hills

Did you know that the humble Lady bird or ladybug breeds near the glaciers of the high Himalaya, and then they migrate in giant swarms to the plains of north India, for wintering in better climes? We hope this leaves you greater esteem for…

hills · flowers

Himalayan Heather is a small branched tufted shrub which can grow to a foot high. Many stems are clustered together in parallel.

flowers · hills

The sun rises from behind Srikanta peak and adjacent range peaks in the Garhwal Himalaya. Late flowering Geum elatum is an unusual sight in October, but the Aconitum violaceum is usually seen at this time itself, in the autumn season, and t…

livestock

Blue sheep, (genus Pseudois), also called bharal, either of two species of sheeplike mammals, family Bovidae (order Artiodactyla), that inhabit upland slopes in a wide range throughout China, from Inner Mongolia to the Himalayas.

hills · river

A Tahr or Jular forages in the moist ground near a Himalayan stream in the Uttarakhand Himalaya, near Dodital lake, in the winter of 2021. Our cameraman hides in Rhododendron shubbery to film this rare Himalayan ungulate for us.

birds · hills

The White-throated Laughing Thrush moves around in bands of 5 to 10 birds, one calling to the other to stay in touch. The call is a lovely ventiloquistic echoing whistle that is often heard across the lower hills of the Himalaya.

hills · forest

The red face lappet and white kalgi or head-dress feathers stand out in prominence, as the male Kaleej uses all the tricks in its book to impress the female bird nearby, at our wildfilmsindia sanctuary in the Himalaya.

Uttarakhand·hills

As seen in the video the Kumaon region favours terrace farming growing organic vegetables for the villages in Regru valley.

hills

Take a 360 degree camera walk up the slopes of Mt. Rudragaira in the Gangotri Himalaya, and look to the distant Naga - Nelang range, as one ascends in bright sunlight on an early winter's day.

snow · hills

In parts of the Himalaya, the summer snowmelt is so extreme that the peaks are left bereft of snow cover.

wildlife · hills

Musk deer are artiodactyls of the genus Moschus, the only genus of family Moschidae. Moschus moschiferus is the Himalayan or Siberian Musk Deer.

Uttarakhand·temple · river

The riverfront and temple surroundings of Badrinath Dham in Chamoli district, Uttarakhand, India.

hills · wildlife

The footage captures a rare and intimate moment in the high Himalayas, where a mother Snow Leopard (Panthera uncia) is seen resting closely with her two cubs, huddled together on rugged mountain terrain.

flowers · hills

Peony flowering season peaks at wildfilmsindia in the Himalaya: Pink fragrant peonies in bloom at Motidhar Our peony blooms attain a giant size, thanks to the Himalayan shunshine and Bindal stream and spring waters.

birds · wildlife

With many predators on the prowl, including a Yellow-throated Marten or tutrali, our distant protection of this nest yielded a successful clutch of fledged chicks! Notw how th parent flaps its wings, chick-style, in order to elicit a certai…

hills · birds

Hill Barbet has a wide range from the western to the eastern Himalaya, seen here in West Bengal's Dooars.

Uttarakhand·hills

Late season accumulated hail in the wildfilmsindia Himalaya: It barely snows in the middle hills, but hail is common, around our mountains in Mussoorie.

forest · hills

A male Dark Grey Bush Chat nests in wildfilmsindia sanctuary in the Himalaya, and successfully fetches grubs and bees for its chicks within the nest in a hillside earth bank, between flowering Eregeron bellidioides daisies.

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.

forest · hills

Climate change has truly started to bite. Large swathes of pristine Himalayan forests were destroyed in the spring of 2021, due to inordinate dryness, lack of rain and humidity, and the carelessness of tourists and villages wherein someone…

Uttarakhand·river · hills

An overview of the trek to Roopkund Lake through the meadows of Ali and Bedni buggyal in the Garhwal Himalaya.