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Uttarakhand·hills · flowers

A perfectly formed swirl of a Persian Buttercup and Ranunculus at wildfilmsindia Jabbarkhet botanical collections in the Himalaya

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What cheer nodding heads! Different types of daffodils light up our wildfilmsindia Himalayan spring-time in the mountains in the spring time of March 2024.

Uttarakhand·hills · wildlife

Blue bearded Bee-eater: Rare sighting of this smart insect eating superb flyer with a beard, in Mussoorie, at the Wilderness Orchard and conservation forests at Motidhar.

aerial · temple

Barsana hill-top temple aerial view from Mathura Vrindavan Holi on 26th March A stunning aerial view of the Radha Mandir in Barsana, in this aerial view of the Mathura - Vrindavan Holi central belt as on 26th March 2024, as seen aerially, f…

farmland · aerial

Jenu Goodu Betta Village and worhsippers on Mahashivratri day in Karnataka, paddy fields all around, in this aerial view, as seen aerially, from the air, in South India.

hills · snow

Neat and cute as buttons, a covey of Tibetan Snow Partridge huddle together on an icy snow slope in the Ladakh winter, rugged and tolerant to extreme temperatures. They band together to keep warm and share in each others' warmth.

birds · hills

Chestnut-bellied Himalayan Rock Thrush female has a banded chest and cute beady brown eyes Opening its beak wide, almost as if it were exercising, this drably-coloured but most elegant female Chestnut-bellied Rock Thrush grooms itself and p…

crafts · highway

Old British style golf house at Ranikhet Army Golf Course in Kumaon, Uttarakhand, and Battle Craft Training Area of Kumaon Regimental Centre, near Chaubattia / Chaubatia. Army Golf Course, Ranikhet.

hills · temple

A kid comes running down the steep and long temple stairs on the hillside, on the path up to the colourful Jenu Goodu Betta Anjaneya Swamy Temple which stands at a height from the valley floor, as seen aerially, from the air, in this aerial…

aerial · hills

Diesel-spewing heavy trucks and cranes mine and carry iron and manganese ore out of Sandur mines in Bellary, Karnataka Entire Western ghats mountain tops cut off with roads and plundered hillsides.

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Not a Yellow-bellied Wagtail but a Grey Wagtail! Excited at the prospect of making a pit stop in an empty swimming pool, this migratory Wagtail wags its tails and chomps on moths and insects in the water before heading up to the Himalaya fo…

aerial · hills

Forest tracts cut up by rough roads that carry heavy trucks with mined stone, ores and materials in them, spewing diesel fumes.

industry · hills

Iron Ore pre-processing at Sundur in Karnataka: Mining and heavy earth moving and processing machinery is destroying the virgin hills of the Western Ghats in Karnataka state.

industry · aerial

Entire Western ghats mountain tops cut off with roads and plundered hillsides. Not a shrub or green leaf in sight, such a distant cry from the verdant hills beyond.

livestock · hills

Women of India: Rajasthani Women in colourful local attire, with an older woman tending to her goats and sheep, and other young Rajasthani women travelling to an event in an open jeep and a jugaad tractor vehicle, their orange and yellow gh…

hills · flowers

With the late winter clouds in over the lower mid ranges of the Himalaya, our team of gardeners plant out Camellia shrubs en masse at the wildfilmsindia Jabbarkhet botanical arboretum in the Himalaya, in Uttarakhand state.

Uttarakhand·hills

Evening in Mussoorie, with winterline showing from wildfilmsindia Jabbarkhet Estate, layers of cloud cushioning the sunset view which is actually less romantic than one could imagine, with the colours coming from the layers of air pollution…

Uttarakhand·hills

From the crowded over-constructed slopes of Mussoorie town, the view of the Himalaya remains as enchanting and has not been ruined thus far.

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Ropeway cable car teleferique on the Mussoorie mall: How safe are such operations in the Himalaya? We have all heard of the Parwanoo inceident in Himachal Pradesh from some years back! Ropeway on Mussoorie mall: How safe are such tourism in…

Uttarakhand·hills

Watch a Himalayan glow-worm disappear into soft earth in Landour, Uttarakhand. A viewer tells us these are likely to be adult female glow-worm firefly (probably a Pyrocoelia species) .. i.e.

Uttarakhand·hills

A Himalayan glow-worm in Landour, Uttarakhand. A viewer tells us these are likely to be adult female glow-worm firefly (probably a Pyrocoelia species) .. i.e. the more yellowish animal with the reddish head shield filmed at night.

Uttarakhand·hills · forest

A pair of Rufous or Black-capped Sibia do a little jig on a water pipe to get a drink of clean water, and a Black-crowned Jay on a late winter day at the wildfilmsindia Jabbarkhet forest in the Uttarakhand Himalaya.

Uttarakhand·flowers · hills

A deep purple Crocus flower opening and closing in time lapse, following movement of the sun, at Jabbarkhet in the western Himalaya. A white clover flower grows right behind it.