Fauna and Flora of HP India

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Parvati valley

Birds:

Hoopoe (Wiedehopf, Upupa epops) In India seen from Hampi to Uttarkhand near Almore uppar and HP Parvaty valley in the north. There near the apple trees ad half open fields with granite rocks. Wonderful bird, nicely colored with crest and during flight more catching by white spots on wings than on ground, kind og butterly like flight.
In Europe rare, attentive and hiding, in some regions like central alpine vallies south nests get counted, found all over Eurasia in warm areas and parts of Africa. Hunts for insects near fruit carring trees, dry half open country with walls, ruins and rocks spread
Bred 2002 in our garden and sometimes visiting late summers, nesting in holes of walls and trees, max. hole span of artifial nests should be max 5cm big in mid Europe. (Hoopoe, Kalga o17may)

    Bulbuls, Crows, Bearded vultures late summers sometimes passing over daily, Peregrine falcons most powerfull and fast, Pariah kites lineatus phase (o17), occasioanally Plumheaded parakeets in small groups, Magpies yellow and redbilled, Hoopoes, Spotted nutcrackers, babblers, thrushes, a few species Woodpeckers, tits and more.


        P. valley plants -
    Cobra plant
A special and beautifull looking insect catching plant, long cuplike flycatch containers a bid looking like cobras when n attack mood, also growing in HP in the deodars but special groups discovered in region up from Kalga and further. Needs half shady locations exponated and warm, takes also harsh winters.


Datura - Stechapfel
Datura metel (indian datura) Metel is a strong growing datura, white standing trompete flowers, heavy smell and haircover on leaves, some varieties with stramonium mix. Exponated and hot, not too dry locations. Bread over years in pots.
    Subtropical climate from HP India to Kerala, found in Goa at sunny streetsides, villages n the more. Some women don t like the plant cause of its agressive smell

    Datura stramonium, (mexican stechapfel) light green leafes bushy up to 1,5 m, needs sunny dry exponated locations. Can also be found in mid Europe at sunny exponated gravel grounds, dump sites nd the more, in HP India also in lower Parvaty valley near Jari.
    Gets used during ceremonies by mexican native indians, halluzinogenic and can drown the body nicely if used moderatly. Bred forms can get shopped as Engelstrompete, white hanging flowers by long crossbreeding. In India many forms from north in pink mixes to white stramonium, near Munnar (Kerala) huge hanging white trompets. Datura gallery


    Useable
plants like maize (corn), potatoes, mint at wet areas in Parvaty valley. Brunnenkresse
tasty, in small water streams, has its litle sister in mid Europe at same biotops. Hemp (canabis) in many nice variations.
    I can imagine trying Heidelbeeren (blueberries) growing in moorlike moist biotops up there (Deodar zone), half shade, uppar valley, good for marmelade, cakes and anti bad stomach.

    Strawberries wild tiny ones in above Deodar zone, flowering may o17 in same region over Kalga (tuut in hebrew), both look a bid suspiciouse to me up there.

Waldvoegelein weiss
only once in himalayan conivere zone at over 2000m, is of the orchids. Have in garden the wild rose one, rare specie with interesting locations the rose one, half shady locations.

    Trees
like oaks, deodar (himal. cedar) holy with very good smelling seeds, huge himal coniferes (Himal Kiefern), further up Ulmen, barches, med high rododendhrons covering ground at tree line and Eiben in high alpine woodmoores.

Climate: Special about the climate is that uppar valley the way to Thwak Debasa, Kullu Kango via Keerganga into Pin valley (Spiti) you get from the green and moist zones with woods out into the rain shadow, the high altitude mountain desert zone, the reign of the Snow Leopard who has a big territory and like to roam it much.


    I want to make Kalga great
not by a strange huge dam pretending to be a hydel power station,
I want to make Kalga great by great harvests, by succes and profits
It s the region close to the Snow Leopard on way to Malana from Kalga and to Spiti, the land of the gods, changing weathers, snow,
rains and sun in mixed mountain moods.
I want to make Kalga great, not by small strawberries somewhere up hidden in the woods, but sometimes sunflowers and tagetes. Not by a single white Waldvoegelein standing up in the woods, but by fields, crops and success, by nice fireplaces and the sauna (at Researches) for winters on way
to Keerganga. (alt 2000m)

On the vallies Rocks n waters, Valley gallery, Touri infos or P valley story and Maps (trekking)

Kosi river