hills

Ladakh·hills

Leh airport must be one of the most difficult ones to land at in India. See the alluvial fans and plains and valley below Stok Kangri behind the Air India plane that has circled around in the valley in order to lose altitude and approach th…

forest · hills

A male Dark Grey Bush Chat nests in wildfilmsindia sanctuary in the Himalaya, and successfully fetches grubs and bees for its chicks within the nest in a hillside earth bank, between flowering Eregeron bellidioides daisies.

hills · flowers

Anemone in a deep pink, Arum Lilies by the thousands, daffodils of many kinds, with Thrushes calling in our forested bowl. Peoniflorum tulips start to bloom in spring at the Pari Tibba botanical gardens of wildfilmsindia in Uttarakhand.

hills · forest

Triggering our camera traps, this Goral or wild Himalayan Mountain Goat cautiously forages for leaves and dry grass, ever watchful for the presence of a leopard! Small mice and other rodents gambol around in the forest at night.

flowers · hills

It takes a lot of heavy digging to get to the bottom of these mighty clumps of Agapanthus or Lily of the Nile. But we need to uproot them, divide them and re-plant them, to ensure their well-being and continued growth and flowering...

birds · hills

A gaggle of birds make their presence felt in the mountains during spring-time, at our wildfilmsindia sanctuary at Motidhar in Uttarakhand.

hills · flowers

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

hills · flowers

A range of varieties of Tulips and Daffodils with orange centers, Dutchmaster double yellows and other varieties, flourish and bloom in the Himalayan spring, at the Wilderness Orchard and botanical gardens in the Western Himalaya.

hills · industry

It takes a lot of heavy digging to get to the bottom of these mighty clumps of Agapanthus or Lily of the Nile. But we need to uproot them, divide them and re-plant them, to ensure their well-being and continued growth and flowering...

birds · hills

A gaggle of birds make their presence felt in the mountains during spring-time, at our wildfilmsindia sanctuary at Motidhar in Uttarakhand.

hills · flowers

Anemone in a deep pink, Arum Lilies by the thousands, daffodils of many kinds, with Thrushes calling in our forested bowl. Peoniflorum tulips start to bloom in spring at the Pari Tibba botanical gardens of wildfilmsindia in Uttarakhand.

river · hills

A tiny trickle of water is all it takes to attract winged visitors. This tiny little Himalayan stream, littered with dry leaves and fallen rhododendron flowers is the perfect spot for birds to forage.

snow · hills

Early autumn snowfall turns a trekking team back in the Jhinda valley above Harsil. Srikantha peak visible in the background, on a clear sunny autumn day.

flowers · hills

Muscari armeniacum or Grape Hyacinth blooming successfully in Himalayan botanical garden

hills · flowers

Spring time is clearly upon our hills, as one sees a lot of Rhizomatic Iris in deep blue flowering at wildfilmsindia botanical gardens in the Himalaya. These iris bulbs propagate and multiply not through bulbs or regular roots but rhizomes.

hills · farmland

As the clouds roll in across a Himalayan sunrise sky, one sees daffodils at dawn! Sunrise over the Himalaya reveals a field of Dutchmaster daffodils in bloom in Uttarakhand.

hills · aerial

Ramgarh in Jharkhand, Maa Chhinnamasta Temple, around Padma Kila Hawamahal, Patratu Valley, Cannery Hill, Jharkhand aerials Ramgarh in Jharkhand Ramgarh district is one of the 24 districts in the Indian state of Jharkhand.

hills · flowers

These primulas have become naturalized garden escapes and these Primroses bloom in the Himalayan spring time, growing in large bunches and later dropping their seeds down the hillsides, in time for the next spring's flowering.

hills

Allium and daffodil winter bulb planting in the Himalaya: Growing flowering onion varieties and different types of narcissus at the wildfilmsindia botanical gardens in Uttarakhand.

Uttarakhand·highway · hills

An enormous prickly much-needled Porcupine or Siahi crosses our Camera Trap and triggers the recording, in the dead of night, on a winter's day in the Himalaya, at the wildfilmsindia wildlife sanctuary at Jabbarkhet in Uttarakhand, around M…

forest · hills

Treading through sunlight and shadow, this murgha cautiously walks through the forest understory, even as Maroon Orioles calls in the backdrop in its clear melodious fluty whistle...

hills · forest

A male Grey-winged Blackbird calls in its melodious voice in the Uttarakhand Himalaya. Normally a vociferous songster, here the Blackbird sits quietly in an Oak tree, and NOT in the mood to sing! The rich humus and fallen dry leaves on a fo…

birds · forest

What a lovely trilling call this male Verditer delivers, in order to establish its territory and attract a mate.