Placed in tube-shaped, metal-mesh feeders, peanuts will entice woodpeckers, jays, chickadees, titmice,
bushtits, nuthatches, brown creepers, wrens, kinglets, Northern mockingbirds, brown thrashers, starlings, and yellowrumped and pine warblers.
It is rare that he publishes poems that start and end in a "foreign" culture, and instead of populating his work with fleshed-out humans, he more often focuses on the natural world, self identifying as a nature poet in essays like "Baler Twine: Thoughts on Ravens, Home and Nature Poetry" and "The
Bushtits' Nest" (Vis a Vis 2001) and in his 2001 interview with Ken Babstock.