farmland

wildlife · birds

Forlorn looking bird with huge yellow eyes and a shy cute face! Stone Curlew protects its eggs in fierce summer sun The Stone Curlew nests at the Wilderness Orchard in Delhi.

farmland · hills

Traditional farming the old fashioned way, using brute human force alone. A farmer couple powers an old style hand powered plough to till their fields: Farming in the hills of Uttarakhand in India.

flowers · farmland

Eating sunflowers, or rather destroying them is this Blossom-headed or Plum-headed Parakeet at Wilderness Orchard in New Delhi's spring-time warmth. The Blossom has red shoulder patches.

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The Stone Curlew prepares to nest at Wilderness Orchard in Delhi. However, summer breeding season worries persist, as the Rhesus macaques and cats could get their eggs like they did last summer! The Curlews have become territorial and start…

festival · farmland

Mizo women walk the field at a fashion show at Anthurium festival 2022 in Mizoram Mizo women with bamboo and cane baskets walk at fashion show at Anthurium Festival 2022, in Mizoram, India.

birds · forest

Notice the yellow and orange wing patch of the phoolsungni! Indeed, the Pruple Sunbird male shows off its yellow-orange wing patch when displaying, to full advantage.

flowers · hills

Yellow orchid flowers of Dendrobium densiflorum from Sikkim, seen flowering in Delhi garden during spring-time Dendrobium densiflorum, a Himalayan epiphytic tree orchid mostly found in the Sikkim and West Bengal Himalaya flowers profusely…

forest · farmland

What stunning dazzling iridescent blue om this male breeding season time Purple Sunbird sitting on and consuming nectar from the orange blooms of the Flame-of-the-Forest tree, against a green spring-time backdrop at the Wilderness Orchard i…

industry · farmland

Mealy bugs suck out the life and juice from mango fruit stems - Get them of them from your orchard! These are the worst plant pests in fruit orchards in the plains of India.

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These Sunflowers are grown as an agricultural crop for seed and oil, not for floral beauty, in Orissa. The bees happily partake of the nectar, regardless.

farmland · village

An Odiya farmer chases away marauding Langur monkeys from his fields rural Odisha. The langurs just seem to be sitting around and scratching themselves and doing no visible harm, but he wants to take no chances, perhaps...

farmland · sport

An aerial view of an aerial journey! How nice that the north-east of India has such a wide range of adventure sports on offer. Surely north-east India should become the outdoor sports hub for the region...

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Five-striped Palm Squirrel digs for food and other goodies at the Wilderness Orchard forest and gardens in Delhi.

farmland · wildlife

Unripe Artocarpus harel bharel fruit and peaches at Wilderness Orchard in Delhi's early summer heat Unripe bharel fruit and peaches at Wilderness Orchard in Delhi's early summer heat An Indian man eats Barhel or Lakoocha fruit in Delhi.

flowers · farmland

Delicate pink and white in this Shirley Poppy flower at the Wilderness Orchard in Delhi.

flowers · industry

You would never guess which plant these flowers are produced by! No less than the humble carrot vegetable!

birds · farmland

A Coppersmith and Green Barbet pair each breeding inside a Jacaranda tree trunk in April 2023, at Wilderness Orchard in Delhi.

farmland · flowers

Carombola or Starfruit fruits at Wilderness Orchard in Delhi. Carombola or Starfruit fruits at Wilderness Orchard Known as Heinijom in Manipur, the Star fruit, Kamrak or Carambola tree is native to parts of India and South-east Asia.

farmland · lake

Openbill Stork has strangely shaped beak with a gap in between - perfect to break crustacean shells, sort of like a walnut or other nut cracker! A relatively small stork species with a greyish to the white body and black wings and tail with…

farmland · flowers

Artichoke, a vegetable, grows and begins to ripen in Delhi's heat, at Wilderness Orchard botanical gardens

flowers · hills

Dendrobium densiflorum, a Himalayan epiphytic tree orchid mostly found in the Sikkim and West Bengal Himalaya flowers profusely in the spring season at the wildfilmsindia botanical gardens in New Delhi.

farmland · village

Peanut farming and harvest as seen in time lapse from the agricultural fields of Odisha in India. Men and women bend down on the ground and harvest the peanut plants for later brushing out the underground peanut pods.

birds · farmland

Sleep deprived owl! This poor sleepy Owl or rather Spotted Owlet tries to grab a nap on a bright summer day at Wilderness Orchard Sleepy Owl: This poor Spotted Owlet tries to grab a nap on a bright summer day at Wilderness Orchard