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birds · lake

In the search of insects is apparently needed great stillness and concentration. This strategy seems to have worked for the heron! Look at those yellow eyes and the brown dappled body, all alert and poised to strike at the fish in our wildf…

birds · farmland

Day time can be traumatic for ullus! Babblers and Laughing Thrushes, sunbirds and bulbuls all harass and create a crackling cacophony around them, if an owl is seen trying to quietly sleep on a branch by day.

festival · farmland

Priest dances with an axe in hand during a trance stage ritual at Uttarakhand Harvest Festival near Harsil. The crowd goes crazy and whistles him on with encouragement. The palanquin of the goddess is meanwhile jhuloed on the palki.

farmland · festival

Local Garhwali women dance during harvest festival in Uttarakhand , in Harsil- Bagori region

festival · aerial

Hopping along on the Chapchar Kut field, these neatly attired Mizo girls are playing hopscotch as part of the Aizawl spring festival in India's northeast. Stilt walking and bamboo pole pushing is also taking place on the field.

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Teetar fight: Safed Teetar graze and run around in the open confidently in the open: Grey Francolin at Wilderness Orchard in Delhi, with their young chicks. Flying at each other, they forward their leg spurs to attack the opponent.

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Even deadly killers such as these mongoose (surely not mongeese as plural!?)have ecto-parasites and need to scratch the botheration, they get disturbed by mosquitoes and their pups play-fight together under the jasmine bush which hides thei…

birds · monsoon

Egret feathers almost! White and brown cappuccino monsoon fresh plumes for our Indian Pond Heron at the Wilderness Orchard in Delhi. Preening and brushing its wings with its beak is this heron, in a daily ritual of feather hygiene.

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Peahen proudly struts around with her chicks in tow, teaching them the ropes of survival and self-care, at the Wilderness Orchard in Delhi, during the latter half of the monsoon season.

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Peahen proudly struts around with her chicks in tow, teaching them the ropes of survival and self-care, at the Wilderness Orchard in Delhi, during the latter half of the monsoon season.

livestock · farmland

Milking a cow in the wildfilmsindia dairy farm in Delhi : Desi-Holstein mixed hybrid gai has milk extracted from its udders, for consumption by its own calf and the calves of another cow that died after birth.

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Durgesh mali from Rae Bareli /Bareilly, a large township-city in Uttar Pradesh, harvests langda mangoes from a tree in Delhi orchard, using a laggi picker which is essentially a net with a blade cutter at one end set at the tip of a long ba…

farmland · flowers

India's common Tota: Rose-ringed Parakeet couple preening and sitting peacefully for an afternoon bit of calm semi siesta at the Wilderness Orchard in Delhi, on a fig tree.

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Bottle feeding a cute new-born calf at Wilderness Orchard in Delhi: Her mother sadly died post child birth. Bottle feeding a cute new-born calf at Wilderness Orchard in Delhi: Her mother died post child birth

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When will our farmers learn to use wheat and rice crop husk and root-stock waste as animal feed / fodder and compostable bio-degradable matter, instead of wasting the resource and also damaging our environment, and exacerbating climate chan…

farmland · politics

The standing wheat crop was flattened and thus destroyed after unseasonal spring-time rains in the north Indian plains of Uttar Pradesh, in the spring-summer of 2023, thanks for western disturbances bringing unseasonable rain from the Medit…

farmland · wildlife

Bird of prey catches hold of and clutches onto a gilheri or Five-striped Palm Squirrel at the Wilderness Orchard in Delhi: Pariah Kite is an apex predator in the city of Delhi.

flowers · farmland

A solar water heater sits on the lawn, while geraniums and petunias in flower festoon the edges of the walkways at Deskit Villa in Ladakh.

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With Sunbirds calling all around, a Pomegranate or ornamental anaar flowers at Wilderness Orchard in New Delhi. Pomegranate or ornamental anar flowering at Wilderness Orchard in Delhi

flowers · monsoon

Heliconia Lobster claw flowers in mid-monsoon flowering at Wilderness Orchard in Delhi Heliconia is a genus of flowering plants in the monotypic family Heliconiaceae.

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With a sick mother, this calf and her twin must be fed from a feeding bottle. Quite a chance to imprint on the calf and make permanent friends with her! Barely able to stand on her feet, the calf eagerly accepts the cow's milk from her huma…

farmland · birds

Red whiskered Bulbul at Wilderness Orchard in Delhi, with cheery red and white cheek patches, and a jaunty crest atop its head.

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A Kauwa lunching on a dry chapatti roti sitting atop a gate at the WIlderness Orchard in Delhi - House Crows have the most varied diets Kauwa lunching on Roti at WIlderness Orchard in Delhi - House Crows have th most varied diets