hills

hills · wildlife

Looking quite wet, bedraggled and bothered by the incessant rain, thus Cuckoo has taken up the only dry spot it can think of, and that was on an electric line.

hills · forest

Lachen is a big crowded hill town in north Sikkim, but gives access to fabulous forest and mountain country in the high forests of the eastern Himalaya. Wet temperate forests of Sikkim surround the town.

flowers · hills

A valley of flowering yellow poppies grows wild in north Sikkim, in a secret valley beyond Thangu and near Gurudongmar lake.

hills · forest

Between Chungthang and Lachen lie some fine rain forests and medium altitude Himalayan forests, with fir trees that play along with the clouds in the hide and seek game of misty magic. Time lapse clouds Sikkim from India.

festival · hills

Every fish caught is proudly displayed, even if it is still and should have been left to breed. These men are killing fish for entertainment.

festival · hills

Camaraderie much, but at what cost? Fishing festival or riverine destruction? Maund mela on Aglar nadi behind Mussoorie leads to ecological damage. Locals band together in the river, to collect all the fish they have stunned.

Uttarakhand·festival · hills

Fishing festival or riverine destruction? Maund mela on Aglar nadi behind Mussoorie leads to ecological damage. Locals band together in the river, to collect all the fish they have stunned.

railway · hills

The Toy train of the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway winds so slowly through Ghoom and Kurseong that pedestrians walk on the train track, and just step aside for the train to pass, and then casually step back onto the train tracks! See a drive…

flowers · hills

Primula eliator, perhaps? What garden varieties of Primulaceae are these? Primulas in the Himalayan spring, but not wild species - garden Primulas all! All are seen at the wildfilmsindia botanical gardens around Landour in Uttarakhand.

Uttarakhand·flowers · hills

Bunches of run-wild Crocuses have taken over our early monsoon late summer hillsides at the Jabbarkhet botanical gardens of wildfilmsindia, overlooking the plains and the higher mountains of the Himalaya, as garden escapes that have got nat…

Uttarakhand·flowers · hills

At our Jabbarkhet botanical gardens, the South African origin Agapanthus Lilies are in full bloom, with Oxeye daisies as white contrast, and bees buzzing all around. Hill Partridge and Verditer Flycatchers call in the background audio.

hills · flowers

Morning Glory and other purple blooms in mid-summer Himalayan gardenscape, with allium, chives, garlic and more. The red-purple and white dotty blooms are onion and allium family ones, but what is the purple-blue garden flower?

hills · farmland

Solar power revolution in Himalaya: Solar panel arrays cover entire mountainside, India turns to non-conventional or renewables / renewable energy.

festival · river

Men behave rowdy and rambunctious, excitable and in a festive mood at the Maund Mela fish killing festival in the western Himalaya.

flowers · hills

First the bee inspects the petals on the outside (why, we wonder?) and then takes off only to land right in the center of the flower, to attack the nectar and in the process do it's service and take away pollen on its legs, only to pollinat…

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Feeding frenzy at feed time for the Rainbows! Our Rainbow Trout fingerlings are growing nicely: fish at wildfilmsindia Himalayan trout hatchery.

hills · wildlife

A Green-backed Tit preens itself fastidiously - feather hygiene is a priority for Himalayan birds as the cold means that they cannot afford to keep themselves wet or exposed for long, so when they get a warm summer day and a pool of cold st…

farmland · hills

How green is my valley! One wonders if these green rice paddy fields will be turned into grotesque buildings with dhabas and hotels, homes for plains-people and locals alike, all in the form of unplanned rash and random developments, like t…

Uttarakhand·snow · forest

With a deep blanket of winter snow within the forest, Nag Tibba at nearly 10, 000 feet altitude stands in the next range over from Mussoorie.

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Swift no more, sadly! Now the slow swift... This Swift must have exhausted itself in flight, been hit by a predator or then fallen out of its cliff-face nest. It barely has the energy to breathe and make not make it, poor thing...

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Solar panel arrays sit precariously on an undulating and steep hillside in the Himalayan mountains of Uttarakhand.

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Red rice from the Himalaya is famously healthy and sweet! Or then try the rajma of Chakrata which is famous - Garbanzo beans from the Himalaya! Bhotia daal lentils come in different colours.

Uttarakhand·birds · river

A lovely celebration of Himalayan birds at our wildfilmsindia bird sanctuary in Uttarakhand! A Canary Flycatcher or Grey-headed Flycatcher hunts around for insects, and an energetic Orange-flanked Bush Robin couple hop on the ground, while…