Help - what ate the beetroot tops?

[guff666]

I wandered out into the garden this morning to find that the tops have disappeared from my beetroot plants. There's virtually nothing left: just a few leaf ribs.

This has happened in the last 48 hours.

I did see some sparrows pecking about in the veg patch the other day. Could they be the culprits?

Guff

[Two_Sheds]

def. sparrows, they love beet & pea tops

[Jardiniere]

shouldnt have a problem then - theres hawks over the river...

[rustylady]

Sparrows got mine too

[Two_Sheds]

def. sparrows, they love beet & pea tops

I used to construct a cat's cradle of black sewing thread over my beets when I sowed them direct: now I sow them into modules and plant them out when they're bigger than a sparrow's gob