The jammy finger has made a mess of my laptop screen for the final time (I hope) and the winner of the fully-loaded iPod in the ten-letter anagram “what bird does this make?” part of our “Smithsonian Field Guide to the Birds of North America” GREAT give-away is….(drum roll)…

Debra Ross (and family). Congratulations, enjoy your prize, and I hope the effort you went to over the last fortnight now seems well worth it!

And for those of you who might still be wondering what the correct answer is, here are all the URLs the ten clues led to and the first letter of each post:

• Day 1 June 16
  http://10000birds.com/louisiana-vs-northern-waterthrushes.htm
  Letter: A
• Day 2 June 17, 2008
  http://10000birds.com/central-park-in-early-april.htm
  Letter: E
• Day 3 June 18
  http://10000birds.com/word-to-my-peeps.htm
  Letter: R
• Day 4 June 19
  http://10000birds.com/upstate-sojourn.htm
  Letter: T
• Day 5 June 20
  http://10000birds.com/redneck-in-new-york-city.htm
  Letter: T
• Day 6 June 21
  http://10000birds.com/cedar-waxwings-in-central-park.htm
  Letter: L
• Day 7 June 22
  http://10000birds.com/a-years-worth-of-bird-blogging.htm
  Letter: H
• Day 8 June 23
  http://10000birds.com/stalking-the-bicknells-thrush.htm
  Letter: B
• Day 9 June 24
  http://10000birds.com/pectoral-sandpiper-at-jones-beach.htm
  Letter: O
• Day 10 June 25
  http://10000birds.com/the-plover-with-no-proper-name.htm
  Letter: U

Re-arrange A-E-R-T-T-L-H-B-O-U and you should get that beautiful little bird of west Alaska and Eurasia, the BLUETHROAT.

Once again, thanks to HarperCollins for their generosity (without whom this competition couldn’t have taken place etc etc), thanks to the many people who took part, and congratulations again to the winners.

We plan to give away more goodies over the coming months, so keep checking 10,000 Birds - you never know what top-class freebie we might be trying to send your way!