While an American Robin picks a berry...I'll pick the winner of the "Great Penguin Rescue" giveaway!

What a close-up! This American Robin was sitting right on the other side of my living room window. He was so intent on snagging berries he didn't mind me on the other side of the glass snapping away.

The colder temps suddenly made these crabapples very appealing to the birds. Usually they don't munch on them until late Jan or Feb, but this year they are fair game now...

"Aaa-hem (which is the sound of a Robin clearing its throat), don't you have a job to do...Peanut?"

You are so right Robin, it's time to pick the three winners for the "Great Penguin Rescue" giveaway! (Click here for a review of the book.)

I printed out all the comments for the past week and cut them into strips.

I then folded each one and dropped them into a big Christmas bowl, mixing them up a lot.

Then Matty pulled out the first winner!

"Uh...Mom, did you take your name out of the comments?"

"Errrrr...no. I forgot."

"Looks like you won!"

(Oh brother! The ironic thing is, if you look at the comment it's the one I wrote to the author, Dyan deNapoli, after she left a comment!)

Matty then drew the three real book winners:

The first was Roy from England. His blog is "The Fenlandwalker Birding and Countryside Blog!"

The second was Warren from England also. His blog is "Pittswood Birds."

The third was Mona from Montana. Her blog is "Montanagirl."

...who can stop drawing names? We couldn't...and as a surprise, we had more to give away. I had four cards left from the Oxbow fundraiser and two prints, so we decided to draw three more names:

The Cardinal cards went to Sarah, whose blog is "Plastic Acid" (which is cool because I just won a card giveaway on Sarah's blog and the cards arrived today!!).

The print of the Eastern Meadowlark in a field of poppies went to Hilke, whose blog is "One Jackdaw Birding."

The print of the American Goldfinch on the sunflower went to Pix, whose blog is Rural Rambles.

Thanks, everyone for participating! It was so much fun watching Matty pull the names out of the bowl to see who would win. If you were a winner and want to claim your prize, email me your address so I can send you your book, or cards...or print!