farmland

birds · farmland

A Rose-ringed Parakeet chowing down on Lantana camara seeds at the Wilderness Orchard in Delhi.

birds · lake

Indian Pond Heron all hunched up and feeling wintery and cold at Wilderness orchard, awaiting easy insect prey. It grabs the opportunity when an insect does come close and within snatching distance.

birds · farmland

Come winter and totas start scouting around for nest holes for the coming breeding season! This Rose-ringed Parakeet had identified a suitable dead wood trunk on a bakain or Persian Lilac tree for its breeding enterprise starting in the spr…

Uttarakhand·farmland · hills

A khurmani or khumani fruit tree in early unripe fruiting mode. Apricot tree with unripe fruit on it, in an Uttarkashi village orchard in the western Himalaya.

aerial · farmland

Aerial bird's eye view of Kakoijana village, forest and agricultural field interfaces in Assam Aerial bird's eye view of Kakoijana village, forest and agricultural field interfaces in Assam, as seen aerially, from the air.

farmland · wildlife

The camera sweeps across a sea of green rice paddies, as it approaches the sylvan boundary of the Sunderbans Tiger Camp Aerial View amid rich green paddy fields in West Bengal, at the edge of the Sundarbans Forest Reserve and mangrove zone.…

hills · river

Trout splash around with glee as they are fed in our trout runs in the Uttarakhand Himalaya.

farmland · monsoon

Paddy fields and monsoon magic in India: Rainy season profusion brings bounties aplenty for South Asia. Farmers run a hull through their fields, powered by a pair of bael or bulls.

snow · river

Mid-winter post now frozen fields of Majhi, Agoda huts covered in snow en route to Dodital Lake beyond Uttarkashi in Uttarakhand. Frozen fields of Majhi, Agoda huts covered in snow en route to Dodital Lake beyond Uttarkashi

wildlife · birds

These cute furry black balls of softness scamper around confidently in their pond habitat. The White-breasted Waterhen has birthed these chicks after their eggs just hatched in the Delhi summer, in their nest that was made among water plan…

river · farmland

Life along the mighty Brahmaputra river - in many ways a more impactful and larger riverine system than even the Ganges, in terms of scope and breadth-width of flow.

flowers · farmland

Ornamental peach blossoms in Delhi - The fruit isn't great but what lovely cut flowers! Ornamental peach blossom in a deep red, flowering in Delhi's ephemeral spring, at Wilderness Orchard, in a thick grove of peach trees.

Uttarakhand·river · hills

Rainbow Trout seen swimming about at wildfilmsindia Trout hatchery, in slow motion, in Himalaya Jal tori farming in Uttarakhand! Rainbow Trout fish ponds and trout hatchery run by wildfilmsindia in Mussoorie river valley Rainbow Trout fill…

monsoon · hills

A melange of rainy season storminess, monsoon clouds and rains, powerful gusting winds, lightning and thunder in the Himalaya, during the north-west monsoon season in India.

hills · farmland

The ridge of spiny scales - Does that give the innocuous Bloodsucker Lizard of Indian gardens its common but rather threatening and obvious misnomer of a name? Oriental Garden Lizard hangs around lazily at the Wilderness Orchard in Delhi, t…

farmland

Sunset in New Delhi? Believe it or not, we do have some nice sunsets too! This is a Wilderness Orchard view through thick teak tree cover.

wildlife · birds

Gular tree has red and green figs, and when in fruit, it becomes hub of insect and bird activity at Wilderness Orchard Gular tree has red and green figs, and when in fruit, it becomes hub of insect and bird activity at Wilderness Orchard

Gujarat·aerial · temple

Tapovan Temple Vadodara Temple outside Vadodara / Baroda city: Aerial view of Gujarat landscape with fields and township area, as seen aerially, from the air.

wildlife · birds

Almost looks like a black panther... A Kaali Billi is on the prowl! Black Cat at Wilderness Orchard: A cat hunts for fledglings, squirrels and hapless birds.

farmland · birds

This Tota is an Amrud chor! Parakeet eating away unripe gauvas at the Wilderness Orchard in Delhi.

monsoon · farmland

Undergrowth during the monsoon season is such that enormous effort is required to clean up grasses and jungli growth or weeds from gardens and agricultural open spaces across India, once the rains have abated.

farmland

A neola pulls away a sheet of plastic (a packet of milk?) away and under a wooden box, to plunder it for nutrition. He next tries to rifle around a bunch of doodh ka dolus lying around after the cows have been milked.

Himachal Pradesh·village · farmland

Chicham village with mid-winter frozen agricultural fields in aerial view of Himachal Pradesh high altitude village Chicham village with mid-winter frozen agricultural fields in aerial view of Himachal Pradesh high altitude village