An idea: If you leave the spuds in that bag and mount a webcam in there early next spring you might be able to watch them remotely...IF they reuse the nest.
Steve, that's a lovely idea, but way beyond my technical skill Some friends have just given me a colour printer and I know it will take me a morning to set it up, with multiple use of rude words But give me an Ikea triple wardrobe to assemble and I'm in seventh heaven
Dove, the Robin has been following me around all day; getting to within 18" of me as I remove old pea and broad bean plants and hoe the soil. I really hope those robinettes have survived, but no one is returning to the nest, unless they get up earlier than I do
I have now emptied the potato bag and had a crop of Charlotte spuds. I took some photos of the nest;
The whitish area at 10.00 is the ghostly remains of a tea bag, the misty area in the middle is hair from the Jack Russell's coat, in the spring I put the hair in a flower pot lying on it's side with a bit of hair; dog's and mine, poking through the hole in the base for the birds to use.
The underside is old leaves, whether they gathered there naturally, or the Robins brought them there I don't know.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Dove, that is spot on; definitely a Robin's alarm call.
An idea: If you leave the spuds in that bag and mount a webcam in there early next spring you might be able to watch them remotely...IF they reuse the nest.
Steve, that's a lovely idea, but way beyond my technical skill
Some friends have just given me a colour printer and I know it will take me a morning to set it up, with multiple use of rude words
But give me an Ikea triple wardrobe to assemble and I'm in seventh heaven
Dove, the Robin has been following me around all day; getting to within 18" of me as I remove old pea and broad bean plants and hoe the soil. I really hope those robinettes have survived, but no one is returning to the nest, unless they get up earlier than I do
artjak I so hope they have survived.
I have now emptied the potato bag and had a crop of Charlotte spuds. I took some photos of the nest;
The whitish area at 10.00 is the ghostly remains of a tea bag, the misty area in the middle is hair from the Jack Russell's coat, in the spring I put the hair in a flower pot lying on it's side with a bit of hair; dog's and mine, poking through the hole in the base for the birds to use.
The underside is old leaves, whether they gathered there naturally, or the Robins brought them there I don't know.
Artjak that is great to see
Teabag 
Bless them. As we say in Yorkshire waste not, want not 
Hope they kept your spuds warm
Not a bad crop, considering I couldn't water them for the duration.