We’ll post links to sites that have Friday (plus or minus a few days) photos of their chosen animals (photoshops at our discretion and humans only in supporting roles). Watch the Exception category for rocks, beer, coffee cups, and….?
Visit all the boarders, Link to the Ark and check back for updates through Sunday afternoon!
You can board the Friday Ark by submitting your post here, leaving a comment or a trackback to this post or emailing fridayark AT themodulator.org.
You can find previous editions at the not quite up to date Arkives page.
Cats
- Sisu: Morning exercises ~ Tiny and Babe
- Blog d’Elisson: Miss Samantha
- JB’s Small World: An Appeal to American Airlines
- Texas Oasis: Purrsday Night ~ Black Cats are Coool
- Val’s Bien: The Morning Sun
- Furry Paws: I will sleep wherever I **** please
- Why Now?: Friday Cat Blogging ~ Ringo Ready For Launch
- Life from a Cat’s Perspective: Finally Friday with Samantha
- The Poor Mouth: And now Robyn in a box
- House Panthers: Formally Feral/Foster Friday ~ Huggy Bear
- TacJammer:Mine!
- Manx Mnews: Finally Friday ~ Miss Abby
- The Scratching Post: Our Maximum Leader Has Got the Right Idea
- This, That & The Other Thing: Finally Feline Friday ~ Window Wonderland
- Cat Whisperer: Indoor Garden and Cats
- What A Good Cat: Traditional Friday Cat Blogging with Mr. Kelly
- anniemiz: Friday Cat Blogging ~ Basket Case
- Mercury Rising: Friday Cat Blogging ~ Alexander the Great
- Chey’s Place: Feature Friday
- Joseph Palmer: Friday Cat Blogging ~ Tory James
- Catymology: What’s for dinner?
- composite drawlings: Friday Catblog ~ TiGrr plays Garbo
- Watermark: Orange Cat Inca[n]tation
- Real Art: Friday Cat Blogging: Reine and Phil
- A Blog for Emma: Funny Friday Friends
- Morning Martini: Everybody Cries ~ Fred>
- If At First You Don’t Succeed: Bop
- meeyauw: LOL Cat Bible: Lectionary Readings ……for the Fourth Sunday of Easter
- Memoirs of a Feline Empress…: Empress Bully Busted?
- Music and Cats: Feline Not-Quite-Friday ~ Tunnel vision : Poor Sasha boarded 4/12
- Pop Culture Gadabout: Weekend Pet Pic: Savannah Cat boarded 4/13
- CatSynth: Weekend Cat Blogging and more ~ A beautiful and sad weekend boarded 4/13
- Imeowza: Caturday ~ Gizzy Auction boarded 4/13
- Mind of Mog: Caturday ~ Meowza boarded 4/13
- Elms in the Yard: Tuxxie on the Stairs> boarded 4/13
Birds
- A DC Birding Blog: Loose Feathers #145 ~ Canvasback on Nest and more birding news
- 10,000 Monkeys and a Camera: Friday Creature ~ this little chickadee is quite the scold
- Natural Visions: Friday Quiz #94
- Shrimp and Grits: A bird’s eye view ~ Mourning dove
- Farmgirl Fare: Wednesday Farm Photo ~ Rooster Two-Step
- Owl Box – It’s An Owl’s Life: American Fish Eagle and Great Horned Owl with chick
- Looking Up: Robin
- xenogere /strange behavior/: Buteo
- It’s About the Journey: Kestrels and Osprey on Rt 22a
Dogs
- What Works For Us: Dog-sausted
- Random Thoughts of Life: Friday Ark ~ Liz and Chels
- composite drawlings: Dogblog ~ ClydeLines
- Chelsea Our Dane: Friday Photo Challenge ~ Heros
- Pamibe: Canine Carnival #24
- Duck Pond: Friday Night Dog Blog ~ We Can Be heros: Sasha and Dexter
- Meditation Matters: Wednesday Life Form Blogging
- Sleeping Mommy: whosa yousa? boarded 4/12
Invertebrates
- Rurality: Major bee-fly, Bombylius major
- Pharyngula: Friday Cephalopod ~ Eye of the bobtail: Euprymna tasmanica
- Ontogeny: Friday Ant Zen ~ Dorymyrmex insanus and Amber Spider-glass
- Myrmecos Blog: Temnoscheila Bark-Gnawing Beetle
- Nature Knitter: Butterfly Meeting
- Wanderin’ Weeta With Waterfowl (and Weeds): Snails, striped, peeled and drilled
- Mokka mit Schlag: Baby Mourning Cloaks Nymphalis antiopa
- The Backyard Arthropod Project: Freshwater Amphipod – Gammarus boarded 4/12
- Wanderin’ Weeta With Waterfowl (and Weeds): Walking on Water boarded 4/13
Other Vertebrates
- It’s Morning Somewhere: Friday Cat blogging ~ Not really cats
- Niches: Black Rat Snake, Elaphe obsoleta obsoleta
- Cascade Exposures: Frogfall
- Pet Monologues: You stunning swine.
- Deep-Sea News: Friday Deep-Sea Picture: ~ Blob Sculpin
In Memoriam
- x
Didn’t Make It
- x
Exceptions (inclusion not guaranteed)
- Walking Prescott: Knots on Wood
- Green Gabbro: Friday Rock Blogging ~ Slag
Extra, Extra: All Ark boarders are invited to shout out at the Friday Ark Frapper Map.
Cat folks: remember to submit your links to:
- Carnival of the Cats which goes up every Sunday
- the 212th edition, 4/6, is up at CatSynth
- The 213th edition, 4/13, will be hosted at The M-Cats Club
- Weekend Cat Blogging which goes up every weekend
- The 148th edition, 4/5-6, seems to be delayed at Bad Kitty Cats Journal
- The 148th edition, 4/12-4/13, will be hosted by the The Cat blogosphere
- Bad Kitty Cats Festival of Chaos which goes up every weekend
- The 39th edition, 4/6, is up at Mind of Mog
- The 40th edition, 4/13, will be hosted by The Catboys Realm
- Do go shout out at The Catbloggers Frappr Map
Birders: I and the Bird: A Blog Carnival for Bird Lovers is published every 2 weeks.
- The 72nd edition, 4/3, is up at Ecobirder
- The 73rd edition, 4/17, will be hosted by Snail’s Eye View
For the spineless: Circus of the Spineless. A monthly celebration of Insects, Arachnids, Molluscs, Crustaceans, Worms and most anything else that wiggles.
- The 31st edition, March, is up at from Archaea to Zeaxanthol
- The 32nd edition, April, will be hosted by Deep Sea News
Dog folks: remember to submit your links to:
- The Canine Carnival hosted by Pamibe
- The Carnival of the Dogs hosted by Mickey’s Musings
has been out of operation since July 2007
For other current carnivals check out The Blog Carnival and The TTLB Uber Carnival
Today’s carnivals
Carnival of the Blue #11 is up on Zooillogix Four Stone Hearth, Vol. 38 is up on A Very Remote Period Indeed The 84th Meeting of the Skeptic’s Circle is up on Archaeoporn The 57th Carnival of the Feminists is…
Major bee-fly, Bombylius major:
http://rurality.blogspot.com/2008/04/bee-fly.html
Dexter and Sasha found that the Bowie lyrics, “We can be heroes”, was more easily sung than done.
FLOWERY, FUZZY FRIDAY RANDOM TEN
…It’s also the perfect time to remind you that the Friday Ark is a-sail once more on the Bloggy Bay: its 186th fauna-filled fun floatation helmed by the estimable Modulator.
Friday Creature
Wow. This is actually the 100th bird photo I’ve shared here since I started posting Friday Creatures back in December, 2004. It’s a little hard to believe, especially since I’ve posted so few birds in the year and a half…
A bird’s eye view: Mourning dove
We have a new resident in our front yard.
Patty says this is a mourning dove (Zenaida macroura) – a common game bird. She’s made her nest (and laid her eggs) in one of the bushes in our front yard. The nest is surpisingly exposed at the moment…
Carnivals
Carnival of the Blue Eleven is at Zooillogix Carnival of Space # 49 is at WillGater.com Carnival of Homeschooling # 119 is at Pondering Heart Friday Ark #186 is at Modulator The 166th Carnival of Education is at The Elementary Educator Grand Rounds Vol…
Orange Cat Inca[n]tation
Orange Cat IncantationMarmalade, Ginger, Tangerine, SunMandarin, Copper, Knockabout, BunsButterscotch, Caramel, Jasper, RedKitty, Bobby, Frodo, FredDolly, Lovey, Silly, BruceBlaze, Lily, Annabelle, JuiceQueen, Buddy, Bengal, RoseMimosa, Pumpkin, Stumbl…
Here’s mine, for Invertebrates;
Snails, striped, peeled and drilled.
Thanks!
Friday Rock Blogging: Slag
Coal slag is pretty.
Here’s mine for today. I got dogs today!
http://sleepingmommy.com/2008/04/11/whosa-yousa/
But I am going to add another post on our kittens later this weekend, so I may be back.
Okay. That’s weird. I lost a post! I can’t find it anywhere. I know it published!
Please check this link again. It should be working now.
http://sleepingmommy.com/2008/04/11/whosa-yousa/
Carnivalia and an open thread
The newest Tangled Bank will be at rENNISance woman on Wednesday, so send those links in to me or host@tangledbank.net soon. Meanwhile, you could read these other carnivals: Humanist Symposium #17 Circus of the Spineless I and the Bird…
Feline Not-Quite-Friday: Tunnel vision
Recently, I caught Sasha napping in the cat tunnel on a sunny afternoon. (It’s getting to be spring in Seattle, and we’re having more of those!) Although I was very, very quiet, and snapped only one shot, he woke up. (Sorry, Sasha.) Isn…
Here’s another for Inverts:
Walking on Water. (Water striders and ???)
Gizzy Auction
Here’s hoping. Mog entered an auction for a gizzy quilt… for me. auction is to benefit them, Mu shue, Lilly Lu and Iris, missing after a dreadful fire torched their home. Here’s hoping they’ll be found safe.
Since it’s t…
Caturday
It’s Caturday and what better thing to do than share a silly Meowza pic. Sure beats doing the dishes. Sides, weekends are for cats anyway.
More cats can be found at:
Bad Kitty Cats Festival of Chaos at Kashim & Othello
Optional Theme – Frien…
I’ve been a bad kitty! I have been forgetting to thank you. Thanks for hosting the Ark! A link is on the way.