hills

Uttarakhand·hills · industry

Carrying and installing a 300 kilogram heavy glass element by standing on bamboo scaffolding, with a potential fall of hundreds of feet on the other side, can be a hairy task.

hills · industry

Working with a makeshift staircase over cement bags and stones, these people undertake the unenviable job of moving a highly delicate pane of Double glazed glass down a steep slope to a home being made in the western Himalaya.

hills

Working in an adept and dexterous fashion, these super competent workmen go about their job with elan and style...

birds · wildlife

Deep blue bird catches evening light sitting on a Himalayan Cedar or deodar branch, and looks deceptively like a different bird but is really a Verditer Flycatcher in the Himalay, at our wildfilmsindia sanctuary in Uttarakhand.

Uttarakhand·birds · forest

Jungle Myna seen at 7300 feet altitude on Oak trees around Mussoorie in the Himalaya - new altitude record of an invasive adaptable species. They are not supposed to be present in the mountains, as they are essentially a plains species.

Uttarakhand·hills · forest

A Yellow-naped Woodpecker's yellow-green throat feathers catch evening light, on Oak tree in the Himalaya, within the wildfilmsindia wildlife sanctuary in Uttarakhand, while a Darjeeling Pied Himalayan Woodpecker pecks at insects living wit…

birds · forest

It's streaks showing up prominently, this Laughie makes cheery calls - see this Laughing Thrush, beak open wide and throat puffing up to proudly and loudly call out to the hillside, and firmly establish its territory! What a lovely challeng…

Uttarakhand·hills · forest

A summer morning Himalayan sunrise from behind an oak forested ridge as seen from Iris Cottage at Jabbarkhet wildfilmsindia estate in Uttarakhand.

forest · hills

A Yellowish-Green Leaf Warbler captures and eats a caterpillar at our wildfilmsindia sanctuary in the Himalaya Himalaya.

Uttarakhand·forest · hills

Fortunately, it was only a brief forest fire that hit Flag Hill and the hills around the Jabarkhet Nature Reserve in Mussoorie, and was quickly extinguished by locals, in April 2022.

birds · hills

Sounding like the typical audio track of an English country garden, this thrush screams out its territorial calls down the valley, with the added soundtrack of the Hill Barbet's 'piao-piao' call that reverberates through the Himalayan valle…

birds · hills

What a lovely challenging yet cheery call this Laughing Thrush has, as it sits on a branch and establishes its territory, while taking preening breaks in between calling out! With a tone of familiarity, we have nick-named this common and fr…

flowers · hills

A variety of Alliums flower, including Gladiator, globemaster and giganteum, in our botanical gardens in the Himalaya.

hills

A mason and tile layer get to work with a precision job! Kajaria Eternity full bodied grey tiles are installed in a balcony in the Himalaya A job that requires great precision and caution! A workman prepares the base after mixing cement, pl…

hills · industry

How a 300 kilogram Schueco Double glazed glass door in transported in a hilly area in the Himalaya, for use at a construction site. The glass comes from St.

flowers · hills

The gardeners and assistant manager at the wildflmsindia botanical gardens and arboretum in the western Himalaya get to work with planting late winter season flower bulbs in our refurbished and repaired flower beds, after a disastrous fire…

hills · flowers

Paeonia emodi, a species of wild Peony that is endemic to the upper Himalaya, grows at the wildfilmsindia botanical gardens in Uttarakhand.

farmland · hills

This innocuous even pretty looking dam is actually the usurper of villages and rice fields, as it submerged large swathes of prime human habitat and Himalayan valley floor space, in the march for human greed and need.

hills · birds

Black Bulbul, a gregarious groupie seen in the company of the best Himalayan songster - the Grey-winged Blackbird with its orange beak and grey-ish wing accents.

flowers · hills

With bird call filling the air, Anemones all pink and the odd yellow daffodil light up Himalayan spring at wildfilmsindia botanical gardens in Uttarakhand.

West Bengal·hills · birds

A Darjeeling Himalayan Pied Woodpecker chips away at old wood on a dead branch, in search of insects, at the Wilderness Orchard and wildlife sanctuary in the Himalaya.

hills · flowers

Masses of tulips and anemones bloom in the Himalayan spring-time at the Wilderness Orchard and botanical gardens in the western Himalayan state of Uttarakhand.

Ladakh·hills

Jet Airways plane, when the company was in its heyday, makes a sharp turn in Leh valley to approach Kushok Bakula Rinpoche airport runway in Leh, Ladakh, India.