wildlife

Uttarakhand·hills · river

Spotted Forktail literally has an elegant tail with two diverging tail streaming feathers, lives by water Spotted Forktails splash around and have a watery ball in the Bindal-Rispana stream between Mussoorie and Dehradun, in summer-time and…

wildlife · hills

Kakar or Barking Deer of the Himalaya, as it gambols, grazes and feeds on green leaves and oak branches, by our wildfilmsindia stream at Motidhar in the Uttarakhand Himalaya.

river · wildlife

Amid terraced fields and neat villages flows and originates one of India's cleanest rivers: Ramganga at Berinag before reaching Corbett, home to Otters and gharial What a lovely blue in the Ramganga River's waters, near the river's source a…

river · wildlife

What a lovely blue in the Ramganga River's waters, near the river's source at Berinag in Jageshwar and Almora in Kumaon, Uttarakhand, with step vultivation fields and quaint villages along the way.

wildlife · birds

Rufous Sibia hops through a peach tree in full springtime bloom, feeding on nectar and insects.

aerial · wildlife

A bird’s-eye view of life in the Sunderbans — vibrant vegetable markets and rows of fishing boats.

birds · wildlife

Two sleepy spotted owlets dozing on a treetop perch, blinking slowly in the sunlight as they settle in for daytime sleep 🦉💤

wildlife · birds

Mongoose digs into the ground to attack a termite underground colony, eats up winged termites and deemak insects.

wildlife · birds

A splash of golden-yellow plumes amid the foliage and you have the Golden Oriole in your neighbourhood Not without reason, the Mango bird appears as a burst of golden yellow.

wildlife · birds

Mongoose family cutely eats chicken that was laid out in the sun for them Mongoose babies hesitatingly approach and then proceed to eat eggs stolen from a bird's nest: Neola is not just a predator but sits at head of food chain Mongoose ste…

wildlife · birds

Indian Spot billed Duck visits a polluted Indian city pond in Delhi : Even birds have to pay the price for human pollution, this stream having been polluted with the sewage and human waste runoff from the Radha Soami Satsang Beas in New Del…

wildlife · birds

Mongoose babies hesitatingly approach and then proceed to eat eggs stolen from a bird's nest: Neola is not just a predator but sits at head of food chain Mongoose steals and eats bird eggs on the ground in a nesting scrape in India: Nature…

Uttarakhand·birds · hills

Blackbird gorges on Berberis aristata or Kingod berries in the western Himalaya, spreading seeds for the shrub Grey-winged Blackbird is one of India's finest songsters, even as it silently pecks around for insects A Grey winged Blackbird sc…

birds · hills

A small group of White throated Laughing Thrush undertakes a summer afternoon of stream bathing: A cheery hill bird from the Himalaya with an orange rump, at our wildfilmsindia forest reserve in Uttarakhand.

birds · wildlife

What a handsome if plebian bird the Cattle Egret is, in its breeding plumage of rust and orange across its face

wildlife · birds

With its yellow-black tongue protruding from its powerful beak on a hot summer day, the Pariah or Black Kite may be a common Delhi bird but it certainly has regal raptor looks and a presence.

wildlife · birds

Cute as buttons: Quail chicks feed, drink and preen in their heated brooder enclosure, preparing for the world outside

birds · lake

Cuteness: Indian Pond Heron scratches its face cutely, with its long toes and feet, preens neck with beak, at the Wilderness Orchard wetland in New Delhi.

Uttarakhand·birds · hills

Stubby little dumpy bird with a thick strong yellow beak as it sits on an Oak tree in Landour: Great Barbet Great Hill or Himalayan Barbet gorges on wild Himalayan pear, stuffs himself and then cannot move as its so full!

wildlife · birds

The cutest large bulgy yellow eyes you ever saw on a bird! Eurasian Stone Curlew is a nocturnal bird so its eyes are "All the better to see you with!" Curlew mum with grown-up chick! What a gentle wonderful old world shy creature is the Eur…

farmland · wildlife

Curlew mum with grown-up chick! What a gentle wonderful old world shy creature is the Eurasian Stone Curlew as seen at the Wilderness Orchard in Delhi Party time for birds that nest on the ground, and have to fend off potential predators.

wildlife · birds

Jal Murghi or White-breasted Waterhen are forced to live their lives in dirty drain water of what was once a lovely Aravalli stream.

wildlife · birds

Macaques sit in the grass and groom and de-tick each other, feed on grass shoots and search for bird eggs to eat.