Sheldon, totally with you on scraps for the critters, I've been doing it for years. Our three acres is mostly wooded, tons of wildlife. I've never heard of chopping citrus peel for the birds but I'm going to try it next time. I do throw out orange halves when they're less than ideal, lots of dry tasteless ones lately, and they usually disappear quickly. I have a few crows everyday looking for meat scraps, and dozens of Woodpeckers on the suet feeders. I try to throw things out early in the day so it all disappears before dark. I don't want to attract too many raccoons, coyotes, and fox, and there are quite a few bears a couple miles from here. So far I've never had a bear this side of a couple busy roads and a highway. No feral cats lately. I adopted a feral many years ago and he was super. Steve turned into a sweet, yet somewhat guarded friend for about ten years.

Denise in NH