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.

Friday Ark Boarding Schedule through January:

• January 7: No Boardings ~ Traveling in Europe
• January 14: No Boardings ~ Traveling in Africa
• January 21: No Boardings ~ Traveling in Africa
• January 28: Uncertain Boardings ~ Recovering

Cats

• Lost in the Cheese Aisle: A Tale of Two Kitties ~ Hakuna and Ringo
• Life from A Cat’s Perspective: Finally Friday with Samantha, Clementine & Maverick
• Why Now?: Friday Cat Blogging ~ The Cat Who Blinked: Property
• It’s Morning Somewhere: Friday cat blogging ~ Farming: Grey Feather
• Cats, Goats, Quotes: Malachi and Boyz
• Sparkle: Flashback Friday ~ Looking BAck at 2010
• Jeter Harris: harharharhar!
• The Cat Post Intelligencer: Tabby Tuesday
• The Second Half: Friday Cat Blogging: ~ Willow, Guest Cat
• Writer & Cat: Obvious Skillz
• konagod: Friday Pussy Blog ~ End of a Decade Edition: Tater Tot an Sissy
• Milepebbles: Happy New Year!
• Jacqeline’s Cat House: Thankful Thursday ~ Sukki, Halle, Calle
• An Angel and a Wizard: Snuggle Time
• Feline Rescue, Inc.: Happy Buddha Belly ~ Pippi boarded 1/1
• Sidewalk Shoes: Weekend Cat Blogging #291
• Reading in the Dark: Friday Cat Blogging boarded 1/1
• Meowsings of An Opinionated Pussycat: Responsible Stolling ~ Nikita Boarded 1/1
• Watermark: New Year Cat Blogging boarded 1/1
• Meowsings of An Opinionated Pussycat: Bad Kitty Cat Festival of Chaos #122; Farewell Edition!…:((
• Our Furry Boys: Kessie wearing his Xmas clothing; boarded 1/2
• Meowsings of An Opinionated Pussycat: Carnival of the Cats #355

Birds

• The Nature of Robertson: Rainbow Lorikeets
• Montanagirl: Bald Eagle Sequence
• Mon@rch’s Nature Blog: White-throated Sparrow
• Dharma Bums: There Is No Parable ~ Hawk and Dove
• Peregrine’s Bird Blog: Feeding the Birds with My New Applefeeder…
• 10,000 Monkeys and a Camera: Friday Creature ~ Plovers and Sandpipers
• Country Captures: Greet Egret
• A DC Birding Blog: Loose Feathers #271 ~ Northern Saw-whet Owl and birding news
• The Skoog Farm Journal: Spoonbills and more
• Rebecca in the Woods: Northern Cardinal, Cardinalis cardinalis
• The Nemesis Bird: Bald Eagle eating another Bald Eagle
• Outside My Window: Another New Year! boarded 1/1
• Trevor’s Birding: Black Swan with Cygnets boarded 1/1
• Backyard and Beyond: Eastern Screech Owl, Otus asio boarded 1/2

Other Vertebrates

• A Houseful of Rabbits: Bunns in Charge!
• Cats, Goats, Quotes: Malachi and Boyz
• The Wild Photographer: Bighorn Mating Behavior
• A Penny For Your Flops: Outside party
• Milepebbles: Happy New Year!
• Montanagirl: Hundreds of Antelope
• The Poupenette: Happy Neigh Year! ~ Vidock boarded 1/1
• The Life and Times of Bunnies: 2011: The Year of the RABBIT ~ Gus boarded 1/1
• Meowsings of An Opinionated Pussycat: The Eternal Game of Cat and Mouse ~ Karl and Joe Boarded 1/1
• Dipper Ranch: Mule Deer with Llama Ears boarded 1/2

Dogs

• Life from A Cat’s Perspective: Finally Friday with Samantha, Clementine & Maverick
• Morning Martini: Half in the Bag ~ Martini
• Cactus Blog: Friday Whippet Blog ~ Benjamin
• Writer & Cat: Obvious Skillz
• Ironicus Maximus: Friday Hound Blogging ~ Silver is happy and loves attention
• Amber’s Diary!: Happy New Year!
• Milepebbles: Happy New Year!
• Duck Pond: Friday Night Dog Blog ~ New year’s Eve: Sasha and Dexter boarded 1/1
• The Paw Relations: Happy New Year ~ A Dog’s New Year’s Resolutions boarded 1/2

Invertebrates

• Ben Cruachan Blog: Three Species of Hoverfly and More
• Nature in the Ozarks: Carolina Mantis and Bagworm Moth Caterpillar
• Dave Hubble’s ecology spot: Barf out! What’s in that pellet..? Fly Larva
• Birder’s Lounge: Bugs on the Brain
• Pharyngula: Friday Cephalopod ~ May you all have a squidly new year!
• The Backyard Arthropod Project: Engorged Deer Tick boarded 1/1
• The Ohio Nature Blog: A Wiggly New Year Earthworm boarded 1/1
• Skev’s B.L.O.G.: off the Moth Mark boarded 1/2

In Memoriam

• x

Didn’t Make It

• Tetrapod Zoology: Stegosaur Wars

Exceptions (inclusion not guaranteed)

• x

Cat folks: remember to submit your links to:

• Carnival of the Cats which goes up every Sunday
  • The 354th edition, 12/26, is up at Meowsings of an Opinionated Pussycat
  • The 355th edition , 1/2, will be hosted by Nikita and Elvira

• Weekend Cat Blogging which goes up every weekend
• The 290th edition, 12/24-26, is up at Judi’s Mind Over Matter
• The 291st edition, 12/31-1/2, will be hosted by Sidewalk Shoes
• Bad Kitty Cats Festival of Chaos Farewell Edition
• The 122nd and Final Edition, December, is up at Meowsings of An Opinionated Pussycat

Birders: I and the Bird: A Blog Carnival for Bird Lovers is published every 2 weeks.

• The 140th edition , 12/16 is up at Peregrine’s Bird Blog
• The 141st edition, 1/6/2011, will be hosted by Birding is Fun

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

• The 57th edition, December, is up at the Wanderin’ Weeta
• The 58th edition, January, will be hosted by Cephalove

For the Herp lovers: House of Herps. The monthly blog carnival devoted exclusively to reptiles and amphibians.

• The 1st Anniversary Edition, December, is up at House of Herps
• The 14th edition, january, will be hosted by The Little House in the Not-So-Big Woods

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