From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has kept, bred, and sold cage and aviary birds at Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of first-hand experience with budgerigars, cockatiels, canaries, finches, and dozens of other species. Every year, millions of garden birds are counted across the UK. Every year, a portion of … Read more
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has kept, bred, and sold budgerigars at Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of watching both garden birds and pet birds up close. More than 650,000 people took part in this year’s Big Garden Birdwatch, and Neil thinks that’s wonderful. He also thinks it’s worth … Read more
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has run Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of selling bird food, feeders, and watching how advice in this trade has shifted over the decades. The RSPB’s new feeding guidance for summer 2026 is the most significant change to mainstream bird feeding advice he has … Read more
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has kept, bred, and sold cage and aviary birds at Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of watching what people buy to bring birds into their gardens, and why. UK bird feeder sales have climbed to their highest level on record this year. That sounds … Read more
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has kept, bred, and sold cage and aviary birds at Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years watching the population of garden birds outside the shop change as much as the birds inside it. This year’s Big Garden Birdwatch results, released by the RSPB, paint a … Read more
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has run Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of conversations with British gardeners about the wild birds they support and the changes affecting them. A genuinely positive UK news story has been quietly unfolding over recent years — more than fifty UK councils have now … Read more
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has been keeping, breeding, and selling cage and aviary birds at Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of watching how garden bird feeding habits change, and occasionally need to change. The RSPB issued new guidance this spring on how UK households should feed garden birds … Read more
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has kept, bred, and sold cage and aviary birds at Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years watching how people feed garden birds, well and badly. New guidance issued by the RSPB this year has confirmed something that conservation scientists have suspected for a long time … Read more
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has kept, bred, and sold birds at Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years watching how gardens and the birds that use them change across the seasons. The weeks immediately before nesting season are, in his view, the most important and the most consistently overlooked window … Read more
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has been keeping and selling cage and aviary birds at Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of watching birds behave in ways that most people walk past without noticing. He has kept robins in the garden at the shop for most of those years, watched … Read more