Capturing birds on camera has become an obsession for this full-time engineer.
"The birding and the twitching aren't just about seeing the bird through binoculars and ticking it off the list," he said.
"You have to wait behind your camera, waiting for that perfect moment for that bird to come and sit on that perch and click that photo without any obstructions."I had to wait for five straight days for 11 hours a day, bush-bashing to photograph that species," he said. He says he enjoys the adventure and remoteness bird photography requires, like spending time at Melaleuca in Tasmania's wild south west taking photos of the critically endangered orange-bellied parrot.It took him a year to capture the scrubtit and cross it off his list.It's taken Mr Pandiyan two and a half years to capture all 12 of the state's endemic species.The one endemic species that kept him on his toes was the scrubtit.
"The best way to approach them is using your binoculars and on your belly flat to the ground to do an army crawl.