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 happens at the intersection of garden bird feeding and indoor pet bird keeping. Most people treat these as entirely separate activities. They are not, and this … 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 giving out garden bird feeding advice that, until recently, had not changed in any fundamental way for decades. The RSPB’s 2026 update genuinely overturns several long-standing recommendations. This … 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 how the UK’s relationship with birds, wild and kept, has changed. The Greenfinch’s collapse onto the UK Red List is one of the most significant bird conservation … 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 sold bird feeders, seed, and everything garden-bird related at Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of watching how garden bird feeding has changed. The RSPB’s latest guidance, published alongside the 2026 Big Garden Birdwatch results, is a genuine shift in long-standing advice. This is … 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