There have been a few postings lately about feeding wild birds with suet cakes laced with chiles. In my experience, birds love suet with chiles...habs, jalapenos, prik ki noos, whatever. There are a lot of recipes for homemade suet cakes out on the web... find one and add some chiles to it. I generally use chopped dehydrated chiles, but fresh or frozen ones would probably work. Just add them in moderation to suet cake recipes. No guarantee however, that squirrels won't find the chile-laced suet cakes enticing too. Dale H. dhitchco@zzapp.org