Tashwita Wildlife Photography

Tashwita Wildlife Photography Where the light meets the wild, you'll find me. Melbourne based Wildlife and Nature Photographer
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There’s something about spring, the way everything seems to come to life…… a signal of happier, more vibrant times ahead...
02/09/2026

There’s something about spring, the way everything seems to come to life…… a signal of happier, more vibrant times ahead. And nothing signals that better than watching a pair of Galahs, heads tucked together, gently preening each other. It’s the same story every year, and somehow it never gets too old to watch.

Captured with Nikon Z6III + Z180-600mm.

Hi, I am Tashwita, a bird and wildlife photographer sharing the quiet lives and unseen drama of wild things. Follow along for more moments like this. 📷



Did you know you can tell a female and male Galah apart? Females have a red or pink eye, males generally have a dark brown to black eye. Galahs are fascinating too, they pair for life, staying with the same partner year after year, only re-pairing if one dies.

Captured with Nikon Z6III + Z180-600mm.

Hi, I am Tashwita, a bird and wildlife photographer sharing the quiet lives and unseen drama of wild things. Follow along for more moments like this. 📷

First day of spring in Melbourne, and there was no better way to mark it than with an Eastern Spinebill working its way ...
01/09/2026

First day of spring in Melbourne, and there was no better way to mark it than with an Eastern Spinebill working its way through the flower beds at the Royal Botanical Gardens

Captured with Nikon Z6III + Z180-600mm, Royal Botanical Gardens Melbourne

Hi, I am Tashwita, a bird and wildlife photographer sharing the quiet lives and unseen drama of wild things. Follow along for more moments like this. 📷



This Eastern Spinebill at the Royal Botanical Gardens, Melbourne has a bill built exactly for this. Long and curved, made to reach deep into tubular flowers like these salvias.

Captured with Nikon Z6III + Z180-600mm, Royal Botanical Gardens, Melbourne



Eastern Spinebills at the Royal Botanical Gardens are altitudinal migrants, moving to lower ground over winter and returning as spring kicks in. Good timing for this one to be out in full flow today.

Some birds need more than one frame to show what they’re really about. Photographing this male Red-rumped Parrot felt li...
31/08/2026

Some birds need more than one frame to show what they’re really about. Photographing this male Red-rumped Parrot felt like watching nature work as an artist, one angle, one pose at a time. Australia is home to over 50 native parrot species, more than anywhere else on earth, and this one’s proof of how much colour and detail this continent got right.

Captured with Nikon Asia Z6III, Z180-600mm.

Hi, I am Tashwita, a bird and wildlife photographer sharing the quiet lives and unseen drama of wild things. Follow along for more moments like this. 📷



Red-rumped Parrots are so colourful that every angle reveals something new. In flight, it’s the blue, flashes on the wings that stay hidden the second he’s perched again.



Perched, he’s mostly green and gold, calm and unhurried, nothing like the flash of colour he becomes mid-air.

Captured with Z6III, Z180-600mm.



Still green and gold, but a different angle gives you a different bird entirely. See if you can spot what’s changed. Watching him is like watching nature work as an artist, never quite the same brushstroke twice.

Haute couture in the bird world? For me its the New Holland Honeyeater. Black and white with one clean flash of yellow, ...
28/08/2026

Haute couture in the bird world? For me its the New Holland Honeyeater. Black and white with one clean flash of yellow, the New Holland Honeyeater looks like it walked straight off a Paris runway. High-contrast and no fuss. But the couture look doesn’t mean couture pace as this bird darts around looking for nectar and insects. The first frame is a composite…. my first attempt at trying to hold onto a moment this bird never actually gives you to fully admire it.

Captured with Nikon Z6III + Z180-600mm at You Yang Ranges, Victoria.

Hi, I am Tashwita, a bird and wildlife photographer sharing the quiet lives and unseen drama of wild things. Follow along for more moments like this. 📷

This gorgeous female Wood Duck sat high in a tall eucalyptus tree, water nowhere in sight. She wasn’t swimming, she wasn...
27/08/2026

This gorgeous female Wood Duck sat high in a tall eucalyptus tree, water nowhere in sight. She wasn’t swimming, she wasn’t dabbling, just perched there calling out, long notes rising into the trees. Somewhere out past the gum leaves was her mate, and she kept calling……patient and confident….knowing he would find her.

Captured with Nikon Z6III + Z180-600mm at the You Yang ranges near Melbourne.

Hi, I am Tashwita, a bird and wildlife photographer sharing the quiet lives and unseen drama of wild things. Follow along for more moments like this. 📷

It’s Wednesday, folks! Whatever mood you’re in, grumpy, confused, alarmed, unimpressed, judgmental, suspicious, or misch...
26/08/2026

It’s Wednesday, folks! Whatever mood you’re in, grumpy, confused, alarmed, unimpressed, judgmental, suspicious, or mischievous…..I have got a bird for it. So take your pick.
Stay caffeinated and stay sane…. the weekend is in sight.

Captured with Nikon Z6III + Z180-600mm.

Hi, I am Tashwita, a bird and wildlife photographer sharing the quiet lives and unseen drama of wild things. Follow along for more moments like this. 📷



This Brown Fish Owl is giving certified grumpy energy at the 9am standup.



This Australasian Gannet staring at a 4.45pm meeting invite that showed up with zero agenda.



Changeable Hawk-Eagle, crest fully up, alarmed by the reply-all email. Big “did I mean to hit send” energy.



Crested Pigeon, radiating unimpressed. The face of someone who just read “quick sync” on their calendar.



Australasian Swamphen, judging your third coffee of the day from point blank range. Rude, but fair.



Crested Serpent Eagle is suspicious of the random “got a minute?” When she know it will take 20 min of her lunch break.



Rainbow Lorikeet, mischievous and fully unbothered by the deadline. Already planning the long lunch.

Missed deadlines are a Friday problem

There’s a particular kind of magic in the unassuming moments of a safari. We turned a corner at Panna Tiger Reserve, not...
24/08/2026

There’s a particular kind of magic in the unassuming moments of a safari. We turned a corner at Panna Tiger Reserve, nothing special expected, and found this Golden Jackal sitting calmly on the road, watching us with quiet curiosity before eventually moving on. Wildlife doesn’t announce itself. It’s just there, waiting to be noticed if you’re paying attention. Every turn holds the possibility of something, and every sighting, however brief, feels like a gift you didn’t know to ask for.

Captured with Nikon Z6III and Z180-600mm.

Hi, I am Tashwita, a bird and wildlife photographer sharing the quiet lives and unseen dramas of wild things. Follow along for more moments like this. 📷



Madhya Pradesh Tiger Foundation Samiti PANNA TIGER RESERVE Panna Tiger Reserve Nikon India Pvt Ltd. Nikon Asia BBC Wildlife Magazine Amateur Photographer Magazine

Meet the Golden Jackal of Panna Tiger Reserve. Unlike wolves, jackals are opportunistic omnivores, eating everything from small mammals to fruit to carrion, which makes them incredibly adaptable across habitats.



Sighted at Panna Tiger Reserve, this Golden Jackal. They typically mate for life, forming monogamous pairs that hold and defend territory together, often for years.

Here in Australia, winter is on its way out, and spring is in the air. Looking back, photographing these Orange-bellied ...
23/08/2026

Here in Australia, winter is on its way out, and spring is in the air. Looking back, photographing these Orange-bellied Parrots was easily one of my favourite moments of winter 2026. These birds are absurdly rare, one of only three migratory parrot species in the world. Hoping to see them again next winter, in even larger numbers.

Captured with Nikon Asia Z6III and Z180-600mm.

Hi, I am Tashwita, a bird and wildlife photographer sharing the quiet lives and unseen dramas of wild things. Follow along for more moments like this. 📷



Orange-bellied Parrots are critically endangered and one of Australia’s rarest birds. Every winter, they make a journey of over 1,000km, migrating from their breeding grounds in remote southwest Tasmania across Bass Strait to the coast of Victoria. One of only three migratory parrot species on Earth.



Critically endangered Orange-bellied Parrots face habitat loss, disease, and competition for nesting hollows from introduced species. Migration itself is dangerous, birds can become disoriented by artificial light during their sea crossing. Every threat compounds against a population that’s already alarmingly small.



Orange bellied parrots- critically endangered Australian parrot’s numbers once crashed to just seventeen birds in the wild. Thanks to relentless conservation work, captive breeding, and habitat protection, the population has clawed back to just under a hundred. Fingers crossed for biggers numbers next year.

Hopping and skipping into spring. The breeze feels slightly warmer, flowers are starting to bloom, and this Red Wattlebi...
22/08/2026

Hopping and skipping into spring. The breeze feels slightly warmer, flowers are starting to bloom, and this Red Wattlebird was busy looking for nesting material. Change is in the air, and this one wasn’t wasting any time.

Captured with Nikon Z6III and Z180-600mm.

Hi, I am Tashwita, a bird and wildlife photographer sharing the quiet lives and unseen dramas of wild things. Follow along for more moments like these.

One bird, one rock, one sunrise. Sometimes that’s genuinely all you need to feel something shift. This Australian Pied C...
21/08/2026

One bird, one rock, one sunrise. Sometimes that’s genuinely all you need to feel something shift. This Australian Pied Cormorant stood apart from the colony, backlit in gold, in no hurry to be anywhere else. There’s a lesson in that kind of stillness, in choosing quiet over noise, solitude over company, and letting that be enough.



Captured with Nikon Z6III and Z180-600mm.

Hi, I am Tashwita, a bird and wildlife photographer sharing the quiet lives and unseen dramas of wild things. Follow along for more moments like this. 📷

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