Neil Ingram
@NeilIngram1
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Telling stories about the living world since 1983.
Bristol, UK
Joined January 2012
A new Story from Nowhere: The titmice of Nowhere Wood https://t.co/f4Hr0ydj3S
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[titmice is an old English name for birds of the Paridae family, including blue and great tits. It is also a term familiar to the American readers of these stories.] This is a bright and early sunl…
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A new Story from Nowhere: The titmice of Nowhere Wood https://t.co/f4Hr0ydj3S
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[titmice is an old English name for birds of the Paridae family, including blue and great tits. It is also a term familiar to the American readers of these stories.] This is a bright and early sunl…
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A new Story from Nowhere: The badgers of Nowhere Wood – a February story https://t.co/I3Z6VRHA90
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Male badger near Nowhere Wood, February 2026. [Photograph: Neil Ingram] There are badgers in Nowhere Wood. For the first time, we think. This is their February story. Imagine living in a dark world…
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A new Story from Nowhere: The wise birds of Nowhere Wood https://t.co/0kxbYT5qSi
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After dark, we can hear the tawny owls that live in the old oak by the pond, calling to each other, “tu-wit, tu-woo”. In the woods and hedges around the hamlet of Nowhere, where the ancient oaks ke…
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A new Story from Nowhere: The mistletoe bough and New Year’s Eve https://t.co/eCgBQVCt1a
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Some of the trees in Trendlewood Park play host to mistletoe, an ancient plant with mythological powers. Mistletoe is easiest to see in winter. when the trees have given up their leaves. When older…
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A new Story from Nowhere: The shortest day in Nowhere Wood https://t.co/2R8Q2fhbTt
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On the shortest day, 21st December 2025, under heavy skies, the light arrived reluctantly, like a visitor creeping late into a church service, hoping to be unnoticed. It arrived in Nowhere Wood as …
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A new Story from Nowhere: The spring… https://t.co/uEp7svjZHj
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This is the first part of a two-part story in the sustainable park series of stories. First comes the summer rain, after weeks of drought. Then the wet drizzly, misty days, then the powerful storm …
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A new Story from Nowhere: …. and the pond https://t.co/sO795EzYH8
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This is the second part of a two-part story in the sustainable park series. Every year, the flow of the spring is rather erratic. In some winters it barely registers above ground, in other years it…
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A new Story from Nowhere: The tunnelling armies beneath carpets of gold https://t.co/wHkmzcsArp
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It is early November in the park, and carpets of fallen leaves are piling up across the earth in sodden heaps, driven by the autumn winds and rains. The browns of the oak, the sycamore ambers and t…
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A new Story from Nowhere: Trick or treat? https://t.co/WiMTbovRTV
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Traveller’s joy or OId man’s beard. Growing on the edges of the meadow, Tendlewood Park. [Photograph: Neil Ingram] A traveller on the pathways, weary after many miles of walking, looks …
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A new Story from Nowhere: Celebrating mushroom season! https://t.co/reT0ttRWKR
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A close up of a honey fungus in Nowhere Wood, showing its gills and stem. [Photograph: Neil Ingram] Everyone agrees, it is an outstanding mushroom season. The dry summer and the warm wet autumn hav…
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A new Story from Nowhere: The end of the summer https://t.co/vNgrQTnaqD
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Nowhere Wood has a weary silence, as the heat stifles its life. It is ready with its autumn plans, which cannot start until it rains. Rain, the life-giver. Yet in flood, rain is the also the destr…
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A new Story from Nowhere: The end of the summer https://t.co/vNgrQTnaqD
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Nowhere Wood has a weary silence, as the heat stifles its life. It is ready with its autumn plans, which cannot start until it rains. Rain, the life-giver. Yet in flood, rain is the also the destr…
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A new Story from Nowhere: A spot for parks and town centres https://t.co/txuGL6vP8N
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The “fruit” of the London plane tree is actually a dense, ball-shaped cluster of individual fruits. These hang on long stalks, often in pairs, from the tree’s branches. The indivi…
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A story from Nowhere Wood: The rains have come! Bring on the days of gentle ripening: https://t.co/YLiT0ulsVq .@chatbiology @ASEChat @GCSENatHist @SchoolReading
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It is mid-July and it has rained for the first time in several weeks. Gentle warm rain, interspersed with strong sunshine. These are the days of gentle ripening, to complete the work that started i…
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.@chatbiology @ASEChat @GCSENatHist @SchoolReading The rains have come! Bring on the days of gentle ripening:
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It is mid-July and it has rained for the first time in several weeks. Gentle warm rain, interspersed with strong sunshine. These are the days of gentle ripening, to complete the work that started i…
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A new Story from Nowhere: Days of gentle ripening https://t.co/Ji9QtjWeui
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It is mid-July and it has rained for the first time in several weeks. Gentle warm rain, interspersed with strong sunshine. These are the days of gentle ripening, to complete the work that started i…
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.@chatbiology @ASEChat @GCSENatHist @SchoolReading What would an old oak tree say to us, if it could talk? A story from Nowhere Wood,
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For Jules Acton, author of Oaklore. The old oak tree said to the traveller passing by: “You know me, you see me everyday. I am that oak tree that has stood here longer than any of can you rem…
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A new Story from Nowhere: I bear their homes, too https://t.co/PllLsCWQn2
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