From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has run Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of watching UK bird life change through the seasons and the decades. In recent years, the question he hears increasingly at the counter is not about budgies or cockatiels but about wild birds that owners are seeing … 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 the UK’s bird world from the inside. Occasionally something happens in that world that pulls in not just the dedicated birders but a much wider audience. The … Read more
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has watched birds — wild, caged, and everything in between — for over 35 years at Paradise Pets Swindon. When a genuinely extraordinary wild bird event happens in Britain, he pays attention. The arrival of a western reef heron in North Wales in June 2026 is, in his … Read more
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has kept, bred, and sold cage birds at Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of first-hand experience with budgies, cockatiels, canaries, and aviary birds. In that time he has watched thousands of birds live shorter lives than they should have. This is his honest account … Read more
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has kept, bred, and sold cage birds at Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of first-hand experience with budgies, cockatiels, canaries, and aviary birds. In that time, some of the most persistent and puzzling behaviour problems he has been asked about have had their root … Read more
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has kept, bred, and sold cage birds at Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of first-hand experience with budgies, cockatiels, canaries, and aviary birds. In that time, the thing that has impressed him most about these animals is not how much they can learn. It … Read more
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has kept, bred, and sold budgies at Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of watching the relationship between these birds and the people who keep them. The subject of budgie loneliness is one he thinks about more than most, because it is the welfare problem … Read more
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has kept, bred, and sold budgies at Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of watching the same seasonal pattern repeat itself every November and December. UK winters produce a specific set of conditions that affect captive budgies in ways most owners do not anticipate. This … Read more
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has sold and kept cage birds at Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of experience with budgies, cockatiels, canaries, and a full range of companion birds. The conversation he has most often — and the one that weighs on him most — is the one … Read more
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has been keeping, breeding, and selling budgies at Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of daily first-hand experience with these birds and the owners who keep them. The tongue is one of the least-discussed parts of a budgie’s anatomy in most care guides, and one … Read more