Nila Sivatheesan - Nature & Wildlife Photographer

Nila Sivatheesan - Nature & Wildlife Photographer Inspired by the wild 🌿
📷 Nature • Wildlife • Conservation • Art
♥️ Ethical photography

Tonight’s partial lunar eclipse 🌙
08/28/2026

Tonight’s partial lunar eclipse 🌙

Anna’s hummingbird 💚
08/11/2026

Anna’s hummingbird 💚

Black Oystercatchers foraging at low tide. 🐦‍⬛ These coastal shorebirds use their bright red bills to feed on molluscs a...
08/03/2026

Black Oystercatchers foraging at low tide. 🐦‍⬛ These coastal shorebirds use their bright red bills to feed on molluscs and other marine creatures.

A tiny shore crab 🦀
08/01/2026

A tiny shore crab 🦀

As much as I love our life on the island, I do miss living among the mountains, watching the fog roll through the forest...
07/25/2026

As much as I love our life on the island, I do miss living among the mountains, watching the fog roll through the forests from our balcony. 🌲

A common wall lizard hanging out between the rocks of my garden bed. 🦎 These lizards are invasive in BC and unfortunatel...
07/21/2026

A common wall lizard hanging out between the rocks of my garden bed. 🦎 These lizards are invasive in BC and unfortunately a common sight in the greater Victoria area. Common wall lizards gather in large densities resulting in intense competition for food and habitat for BC’s native Northern Alligator Lizard and endangered Sharp-tailed Snake.

I do love seeing them run around our garden though. 🥹 Because they are so well-established in Greater Victoria, it’s hard to completely eradicate them from our properties, but we do need to prevent them from spreading into untouched natural areas.

Here’s how you can help protect BC’s ecosystems while still enjoying your garden visitors:

- Check your gear: Always inspect vehicles, campers, and boats for hitchhiking lizards or eggs before leaving the region.

- Check your plants: Look closely through soil, mulch, and potted plants before moving them to a new property.

- Support native species: If you have native alligator lizards around, leave large, heavy logs and deep brush piles where they can find safe shelter from wall lizards.

- Never relocate them to new parks, forests, or neighborhoods.

- Document your sightings on iNaturalist or the BC Invasive Species app. This helps scientists track how quickly the population is moving into new territories.

A pod of transient orcas at sunset in the Salish Sea. 🫍 This was taken last month, and the calf in the second photo look...
06/30/2026

A pod of transient orcas at sunset in the Salish Sea. 🫍 This was taken last month, and the calf in the second photo looked to be around just a month or so old at the time. There were 5-6 orcas in this pod, including a grandmother. Transient orcas live in family groups led by the oldest female, and have some of the most complex social bonds of any marine mammal. The grandmother would have been the one making decisions, choosing where to travel and hunt. That knowledge gets passed down through generations.

06/30/2026

It’s been 4.5 years since we moved here from Ontario, and I’m still in awe of this gorgeous province. 💕

A common murre and a few rhinoceros auklets sharing a log in the Salish Sea. These two species can often be seen hanging...
06/30/2026

A common murre and a few rhinoceros auklets sharing a log in the Salish Sea. These two species can often be seen hanging out together off the BC coast, foraging in the same mixed flocks and targeting the same prey like sandlance and herring. They make it work by diving at different depths and timing their hunts to avoid competing directly.

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