hills

livestock · hills

The sheep wants to keep its coat! It doesn't to be sheared... See how roughly the shepherds handle the sheep, even pulling and dragging them with one leg.

flowers · hills

Trans-planting Agapanthus Lily clumps, after breaking the clumps and re-distributing them, at wildfilmsindia. The Agapanthus from South Africa or Lily of the Nile, had stopped flowering in this Himalayan green-house, due to over-crowding.

flowers · hills

Spring flowers in our Himalayan garden: Orange Sparaxis, Double lime daffodils and Anemones, at our wildfilmsindia botanical gardens in the Himalaya. Sparaxis is a genus of flowering plants called the harlequin flowers.

wildlife · hills

Moving its head left to right, this young Panther or Leopard stops right in front of our camera trap, and films itself in failing evening light in the Himalaya, at the wildfilmsindia wildlife sanctuary in Uttarakhand.

Uttarakhand·hills · festival

Surely Tuirial Airfield in Mizoram must rank among the more tricky and dangerous airports and air fields to land at, in India, ranking right up there with Chinyalisaur near Uttarkashi, Paro in Bhutan and Bhuntar or Kullu airport in Himachal…

livestock · hills

Sheep Kids scuffle with each other, clashing their non-existent horns in a Himalayan forest, practicing and preparing for the big world out there for them! Clash of the baby titans! Sheep Shearing in the Himalaya: Man lies down bhed like a…

hills · river

Does the Redstart not tire of wagging its tail up and down all day? Watch this White-capped Redstart by a stream at the wildfilmsindia sanctuary in Uttarakhand.

livestock · hills

Sheep Shearing in the Himalaya: Man lies down bhed like a baby on its back, and cuts off its fur to make sheep wool. At one point, he even cuts into the skin and the sheep bleeds.

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.

livestock · forest

A newly born goat kid struggles to stand up, searches for mother's milk from its furry sheep mother, in a Himalayan forest, in the midst of visiting shepherds who have camped near our wildfilmsindia forests and botanical gardens in Uttarakh…

flowers · hills

Pink and yellow garden flowers: Hyacinth, Anemone and Jasmine grow in a Himalayan garden, at the Wilderness Orchard and botanical gardens in Uttarakhand.

birds · hills

The Yellow-cheeked Bulbul from the hills has a jaunty crest atop its head and a yellow vent below its tail, whereas the plains Yellow-vented Bulbul has not such crest.

Uttarakhand·birds · hills

A melange of Himalayan birds: Himalayan Blue Whistling Thrush or the Whistling School-boy, male Kaleej Pheasant and Yellow-naped Woodpecker, Verditer Flycatcher and Black Sibia, White-capped Redstart, Spotted Forktail, White-cheeked Bulbul…

Uttarakhand·hills · flowers

In March 2023, wildfilmsindia's first Shimadaijin Tree Peony gave out its first flower, to much joy for observers! Tree Peony grows in the Himalaya: Paeonia Tree (Tree Peony) suffruticosa 'Shimadaijin' at the wildfilmsindia botanical collec…

monsoon · hills

Grown with seed provided by the Meconopsis Group of the UK, this is Meconopsis integrifolia ex Zheduo Shan, with reflective rain drops accumulated on hairy leaves, after a late winter - early spring shower at the wildfilmsindia botanical co…

Uttarakhand·hills · flowers

Foresters plant Rhododendron arboreum tree saplings at Jabbarkhet Himalayan forests of wildfilmsindia

flowers · hills

Dendrobium densiflorum, a Himalayan 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.

birds · hills

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 looks deceptively like a different bird but is rea…

flowers · hills

Germanica or German tall stemmed Iris flower in abundance during Himalayan spring-time at wildfilmsindia's botanical collection

birds · hills

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 looks deceptively like a different bird but is rea…

Uttarakhand·hills · flowers

Fritillaria uva-vulpis grows at Jabbarkhet botanical collections of wildfilmsindia, in the Himalaya, in the spring of 2023.

Ladakh·hills

A drive in the inner Himalaya in a bitter winter. Following the Zanskar and Spiti rivers upstream, en route Spiti, amid a Himalayan winter

farmland · hills

An aerial view of paragliding and parasailing in Mizoram, India, among open farmlands, fields, verdant grassy hills and meadows, and then landing on an open playground field.