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. NOTE: Trackbacks seem to broken right now.

You can find previous editions at the not quite up to date Arkives page.

Cats

• Sisu: Tiny as the Sugar Plum Ferry
• The Mother Load: The Mother Load: I…am owned.
• The Poor Mouth: Bebe again
• Why Now?: Friday Cat Blogging ~ Excise remembering the sun
• It’s Morning Somewhere: Friday Cat Blogging ~ Making Plans
• This Blog is Full of Crap: Baby on Butt
• This, That & The Other Thing: Feline Friday ~ Christmas Kitty
• Little Cat Feet: Do Not Disturb
• Cat Whisperer: It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like…
• Musings of a Mad Macedonian: Meowsings of an Opinionated Pussycat #29 ~ It’s Chrissymouse Time 2! My Secret Paws Gift
• Take Joy!: Victoria, Mighty Jungle Cat
• bloggo chicago: Friday Cat Blogging #73 ~ CSI – All But the Peas
• Photos and Pursuits: Hero-Villain
• Real Art: Friday Cat Blogging ~ Roi
• Ego: Fine Pix of Morris the Cat
• Victor Tabbycat and Nina the Tortie: No Excuses, Mom!
• Sidewalk Shoes: Smudge
• Our Furry Boys: Sebastion relaxing on top of our bookcase
• Paulchens FoodBlog?!: Weekend Cat Blogging #237
• A Wizard and An Angel: Angel and Kirby are Home from the vet!
• The Paper Tiger: Cat People
• Beau Beau & Angie’s Blog: Foolish Friday ~ Beau Beau
• Huffle Mawson, Explorer Cat: Finally Friday
• Manx Mnews: BooBall
• Northview Diary: Hmmmmm… Basement Cat Iz Hiding…
• bloggg: Friday Cat Box Bloggging! Ollie in a box
• CatSynth: Weekend Cat Blogging ~ a rainy morning: Luna boarded 12/19
• Cat With A Garden: Snowy Siena boarded 12/20

Birds

• xenogere: Listening to Henry David Thoreau ~ I and the Bird #115
• Hakodate Birding: 2009 best of #1
• Crafty Gardener: Morning Meeting
• Tina’s Bird Yarns: The prettiest red!!
• Wanderin’ Weeta With Waterfowl (and Weeds): Let it rain! Junco
• Bird Ecology Study Group: Straw-headed Bulbul takes Leea indica fruits and Black-naped Oriole takes a caterpillar
• pitsswood birds: Cormorant, Treecreeper and Linnets
• 10,000 Monkeys and a Camera: Friday Creature
• Huckleberry Days: Red-breasted Nuthatch, Snowy Owl and Snow Goose
• The Fenland Walker: The Stonechat in Winter
• Ecobirder: Wood Duck
• Montanagirl: Bald Eagle
• DDD: Coot and Long-tailed Tit
• Living the Scientific Life: Gift Wrapping With Parrot Companions ~ Male Hawk-headed (red fan) parrot, Deroptyus a. accipitrinus
• Edhat: Lunchtime for birdies ~ Nutmeg Mannikins and a White Crowned Sparrow
• Viewing Nature With Eileen: American Oystercatcher boarded 12/19
• Iowa Voice: White-Breasted Nuthatch boarded 12/19
• Search and Serendipity:
  Exciting waterbirds abound boarded 12/20

Dogs

• Birds O’ The Morning: which dachshund done it?
• Duck Pond: Friday Night Dog Blog ~ Walking Again: Sasha and Dexter
• Farmgirl Fare: Monday Dose of Cute ~ Daisy, Lucky Buddy Bear and Sheep
• Two Special Wires: Christmas Treats from ‘Cross the Street
• Pop Culture Gadabout: Weekend Pet Pic ~ Kyan Pup boarded 12/19
• Ishtar News: : Kimi’s Move boarded 12/20

Other Vertebrates

• Count Your Chicken! We’re Taking Over!: Harbor Seals Sitting Pretty
• Farmgirl Fare: Monday Dose of Cute ~ Daisy, Lucky Buddy Bear and Sheep
• xenogere /strange behavior/: put on your faces ~ Cold Snake and an Armadillo, (Opheodrys aestivus) and (Dasypus novemcinctus)
• Knatolee’s World: Our most senior pet ~ Kartini, a 16-year-old leopard gecko
• Lagamorph Life: Its That Time Again
• Gossamer Tapestry: Sssnake Sssurgery
• The Skoog Farm Journal: Dream’s at Skoog Farm; boarded 12/20
• Pratie Place: The amazing Donkey fight boarded 12/20

Invertebrates

• Kind of Curious: Darwin Contemplates the Caterpillar – Arsenura Armida
• Snail’s Tales: Man takes another step down….The octopus Amphioctopus
• No Cropping Zone: Macro Spotlight
• Wanderin’ Weeta With Waterfowl (and Weeds): Veggie shopping. On the Beach ~ Amphipod?
• Bird Ecology Study Group: Black-naped Oriole takes a caterpillar

In Memoriam

• Cathouse Chat: Farewell, Princess Pixel. Godspeed.

Didn’t Make It

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Exceptions (inclusion not guaranteed)

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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 300th edition, 12/13, is up at Carnival of the Cats
  • The 301st edition , 12/20, will be hosted by Kashim, Othello and Salome

• Weekend Cat Blogging which goes up every weekend
• The 236th edition, 12/12-13, is up at The Sour Dough
• The 237th edition, 12/19-20, will be hosted by Life From A Cat’s Perspective
• Bad Kitty Cats Festival of Chaos which goes up monthly
• The 110th edition, 12/7, is hosted by Kashim & Othello and Salome
• The 111th edition, 1/3/10, will be hosted by TBD
• 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 115th edition , 12/17 is up at xenogere
• The 116th edition, 1/7, will be hosted by Listening Earth Blog

For the spineless: Circus of the Spineless. A monthly celebration of Insects, Arachnids, Molluscs, Crustaceans, Worms and most anything else that wiggles.

• The 45th edition, December, is up at Greg laden’s Blog
• The 46th edition, January, will be hosted by Life Photo Meme

Dog folks: remember to submit your links to:

• The Canine Carnival hosted by Pamibe last year is on hiatus an looking for a new sponsor

• 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