A disaster has occured !!!!!

Sounds like birds, pigeons love brassicas.

Don't just put the wire round, put it over.

They should recover if the central growing tip is OK, however, it's a serious set back at this time of year when things will stop growing soon.

You have nothing to lose if you protect them well.

I always try and put some sort of deterrent near the brassicas.
What I use are old crisp bags (or similar) where, if you turn them inside out, the inside is "silvery". Tie a piece of string between two sticks then, using smaller pieces of string, tie them to the inside-out bags and hang them from the main string. The silver bags flapping about in the wind do the trick for me.

I did actually make a scarecrow once but it failed to have the desired effect!

I tried CD's.

The pigeons had their lunch as soon as I went for mine. The only way is a physical barrier.

It's not a disaster!  You might think it is but it's not. Your cabbages got munched 

You have to dust yourself off and start again. This gardening lark comes with many failures I'm afraid to say. You'll develop a thick skin before you get a colander full of brocolli 

I spent hours making myself a timber frame to cover my beloved cabbage plants. It had metal corners and lovely green netting stapled to it.  A thing of beauty indeed and would stop those pesky pigeons/pheasants/partridges/badgers/deer in their tracks!  First it blew away  Then I fixed it down with a hundred bricks only to turn my back and find that a fat pheasant had sat on the netting and it had given way and the darn thing was in there having its dinner

It's a jungle out there. Don't despair though as you will have many successes, I guarantee it 

Hi

Both last winter and all this season our brassicas have fallen victim to pigeons.  We have found the single best way to keep them away is to put up a bird scarer.  My husband cut a windmill effect thing out of a foil disposible bbq.  Noisy and reflective and my brassicas soon recovered to provide the best caulis we have ever grown.

Certainly will be employing my other half to produce some again next year

willnbirdie

You're just telling it like it is Spana, no need to apologise