I found a big bag of scraps one spring day and thought how it would be nice for the birds. I placed all of them out and later saw it being carried away by squirrels and birds as fast as they could go. The next day I saw colorful nest in all the trees. A few nights later we had a awful wind storm and when I looked out the next morning my scraps were hanging from all the trees and shrubs in the neighborhood. They were even floating in my neighbors pool.
I never did that again.