[vineweevil1]

Have sown some peas and transplanted some others to our plot.  We have netted them (debris netting) and other than the pesky pea beetle? they are doing well.   Do I need to keep them netted throughout their growing time and when they have peas on them?   
A couple of plots down he said he is removing his netting after a while and ours will be a pain in the preverbial to keep untying the debrisd netting, so do the pesky pigeons eats the peas or just the leaves when growing or young?

[DD.]

Having got to about 2" high, I've taken the netting off mine. The support stakes & twine are in position.

The nets will have to go back on when the pods develop to stop the pigeons making helicopter landing pads on them. I find at this stage they don't bother about them.

[Babstreefern]

We have a bloke on our allotment who keeps racing pigeons, and up to now, they've never ever landed on any plots.  They just fly around in circles and that's it.  Basically, I got more damage off insects than the birds.

[DD.]

Swap you for our wood pigeons!

[azubah]

Pigeons ate the flowers off our peas last year. They have never done that before, but everyone nets their brassicas now so they are going on to other crops.

[Babstreefern]

One bird I really, really hate are the wood pigeons with all that blooming cooing   When I go camping, no matter where I go, they're waiting to wake me up at 5:00 in the morning.  I could go camping in the saraha and there they'll be, on top of the telegraph pole, or in this case, a sand dune