“Himalayas”

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…

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.

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…

Madhya Pradesh·monsoon · hills

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

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.

birds · hills

Jungle Mynas invade hill country of endemic high altitude Himalayan birds. These are plains birds and not supposed to be straying so far up hill...

Uttarakhand·birds · forest

Jungle Myna seen at 7300 feet altitude on Oak trees around Mussoorie in the Himalaya - new altitude record of an invasive adaptable species. They are not supposed to be present in the mountains, as they are essentially a plains species.

Uttarakhand·snow · hills

We had some heavy incidents of snowfall this past January, at our wildfilmsindia Jabbarkhet Estate in Mussoorie.

snow · hills

Views of the Bandarpunch glacier, Hanuman valley, and birch forest from the Chhaiyan Gad camp in the Garhwal 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.

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.

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…

Nepal·hills · forest

Dhaulagiri in the morning sunlight, Nepal Himalaya's mighty peaks inside Annapurna Sanctuary. When snow plumes off the mountain it seems like a saga of prayers being passed on.

Uttarakhand·hills · forest

Low winter rainfall and barely any snowfall is another culprit for Himalayan forest fires that frequently destroy the nests and chicks of birds during their breeding season.

forest · birds

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·forest · hills

A serene monsoon scene from Jabarkhet Nature Reserve in the Himalayan middle hills near Mussoorie. The landscape is enveloped in dense mist, revealing rolling hills and deep valleys covered in lush forest.

hills · forest

Hoof fungus grows on a tree trunk in wildfilmsindia protected forest at Motidhar Estate in the Himalaya

hills · forest

Drill machine at work at a construction site in the Himalaya, before laying deodar or Himalayan Cedar wood flooring

hills · wildlife

Camera trap footage of Barking Deer or Kakar as they gambol around on a grassy wintery meadow at wildfilmsindia forests in Himalaya

Uttarakhand·hills · birds

The toot toot-toot toot is the four note call of the Collard Pygmy Owlet, with the warble whistle of the Common Hill Partridge in the background audio, on a bright autumn morning at our wildfilmsindia bird sanctuary in the western Himalaya,…

hills · birds

Jungle Myna has not been seen at this altitude before and while an interesting record, given how adaptable this myna species is, it is not surprising but also not good news because they are extremely aggressive birds and tend to take over n…

birds · wildlife

Grey headed Canary Flycatcher at Wilderness Orchard in New Delhi, just before departing for Himalaya on their return migration at the end of winter.

forest · hills

Plump Kaleej Pheasant walks around wildfilmsindia fields of Arum Lily and Peonies in western Himalaya. They cross our Bindal stream and drink water from a pure source.

forest · hills

Papilio arcturus or Blue (not Common Peacock) Peacock. Filmed at the wildfilmsindia sanctuary in the Himlaya.