hills

Uttarakhand·hills · forest

Himalayan glow worm surfaces from leaf litter at wildfilmsindia forest in Jabbarkhet, Uttarakhand A Himalayan glow-worm walking on a rock-face in Landour, Uttarakhand A viewer tells us these are likely to be adult female glow-worm firefly (…

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Help us identify the butterfly species this caterpillar must belong to... Himalayan butterfly caterpillar chomps on Fennel leaves, all orange, black and yellow spotted.

hills · flowers

Naresh Aswal of Ghorakhuri and his assistants collect seeds in later summer, in our Uttarakhand gardens. Crimson Sweet William seed heads being harvested at wildfilmsindia Himalayan botanical collections.

Uttarakhand·flowers · hills

Ranunculus and Anemone garden in the Himalaya: A riot of pinks, yellow, blues and more, at the wildfilmsindia botanical arboreta around Mussoorie in Uttarakhand.

flowers · hills

Most beautiful Himalayan flower? Born of seed contributed by the Meconopsis Group of the UK, and grown by wildfilmsindia in our Himalaya...

flowers · monsoon

Meconopsis integrifolia from Tibet, budding at Wildfilmsindia botanical arboreta in Uttarakhand Grown with seed provided by the Meconopsis Group of the UK, this is Meconopsis integrifolia ex Zheduo Shan, with reflective rain drops accumulat…

Mussoorie, Uttarakhand·monsoon · hills

Hail stones and rain fall together around Mussoorie. Hail and rain in Uttarakhand: Climate change could now mean middle Himalaya gets more hail than snow

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Afternoon an afternoon summer shower due to western disturbances, this brilliant double rainbow appeared out of nowhere, outside our wildfilmsindia office window in the Himalaya.

snow · hills

Walking crunch-crunch in freshly fallen hail at wildfilmsindia Jabbarkhet in the Uttarakhand Himalaya. Climate change seems to have swapped snowfall for hail, and hardly any snow seems to be received now.

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Cloud time lapse with orange glow, from our wildfilmsindia home in the Himalaya

Uttarakhand·farmland · flowers

As the Blue-throated Barbet calls, our herbaceous and Tree Peony flowering season and harvest peaks with glorious blooms at the wildfilmsindia botanical collections in May 2023, in the western Himalayan hill station town of Landour around M…

Landour, Uttarakhand·flowers · hills

These tiny little daisy like flowering plants grow along mountain slopes and roadside embankments with ease, doing without garden flower luxuries of regular watering, yet flowering, flourishing and growing in number.

hills · birds

The cheery White-cheeked Bulbul of the hills has a jaunty crest atop its head, and a yellow vent below its tail, apart from the white cheek, of course! A common and personable avian if ever there was one...

Uttarakhand·dance · hills

A lovely view of the Banderpunch range and Uttarkashi valley peaks of the Ganga valley, as seen from Morena Dhar, named Tingling Point by Pinder Singh Bhangra, one-time manager of Rokeby Manor in Landour, Mussoorie.

birds · hills

Verditer Flycatcher catches a fly and batters it on the twig it sits on, before consuming part of it, and partly taking it back to its nest for its chicks.

birds · forest

It's tail quivers as it delivers it's lovely call! Turquoise-like Verditer Flycatcher trills on dead grey branch against blue sky: Perfect blue on blue! Deep blue bird catches evening light sitting on a Himalayan Cedar or deodar branch, and…

hills · birds

Hill Barbet has a wide range from the western to the eastern Himalaya, seen here in West Bengal's Dooars.

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.

birds · hills

The male is a red-scarlet sand the female is cheery yellow. Female Scarlet Minivet is the Rani in the Raja-rani duo of Minivets: Flashy-coloured mountain birds that draw attention to themselves.

birds · hills

The male is a red-scarlet sand the female is cheery yellow. Female Scarlet Minivet is the Rani or Queen in the Raja-rani duo of Minivets: Flashy-coloured mountain birds that draw attention to themselves.

Uttarakhand·forest · hills

This giant all black kauwa is the Himalayan Jungle Crow and is the largest of our kauwas, as seen here at the wildfilmsindia sanctuary at Jabbarkhet around Landour-Mussoorie, in Uttarakhand.

hills · ceremony

Past rain forest like valleys, and thick Himalayan middle altitude forests one drives up the Teesta river valley from Gangtok and the lower hills towards the north.

flowers · hills

Meconopsis paniculata or Himalayan yellow poppy growing wild on a Himalayan slope in north Sikkim, as well as Oriental garden Lily : Two yellow stunners Meconopsis paniculata in Sikkim Himalaya, seen in end Jun 2002 with droplets of monsoon…