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

• Blog d’Elisson: Pugly ~ Meet Honey Bunny and /Pugly Hakuna
• Life from a Cat’s Perspective: Samantha & Clementine in Competitive Napping
• Meowsings of An Opinionated Pussycat: Birthday Countdown Begins With Mousecapades and a Mystery!
• Why Now?: Friday Cat Blogging ~ She’s Back: Molly
• It’s Morning Somewhere: Friday Cat Blogging ~ Different Cat
• Cokie the Cat: Winter Olympics!
• All About Lacocoon Dante: Mancat Monday Montage
• Cat Whisperer: Spot the Kitty!
• Take Joy!: Cats in baskets ~ Jane and Kali and Bonus Goat ~ Daisy
• Victor Tabbycat and Nina the Tortie: Finally Friday
• Plush Life: Some Friday Kittehs
• William of Mass Destruction: Meezer Mad Wednesday
• The Zoo: I’m the centerpiece ~ Benoit
• Joseph Palmer: Friday Cat Blogging ~ Miko and T-chan
• Farmgirl Fare: Tuesday Dose of Cute ~ Perfectly Posed
• Places and People, My View with A Laugh: Dragon at The Window and Whiskers
• Real Art: Friday Cat Blogging ~ Frankie and Sammy
• Huffle Mawson, Explorer Cat: Finally Friday
• The Cat Post Intelligencer: Whisker Wednesday
• Our Furry Boys: Where Did I Leave that Foot? boarded 2/20
• Pop Culture Gadabout: Weekend Pet Pic ~ Xander Cat boarded 2/20
• Bloggo Chicago: Friday Cat Blogging No. 80 – Face Plant Angelo boarded 2/20
• CatSynth: Weekend Cat Blogging abd Photo Hunt ~ Cuddly boarded 2/21
• Dancing With Billy Sweetfeets: Weekend Cat Blogging #246

Birds

• Somewhere In NJ: I and the Bird #119
• Viewing Nature With Eileen: Yellow Billed Cuckoo
• A Brooklyn Bachelor: The skull of the bird
• 10,000 Monkeys and a Camera: Friday Creatures ~ Tampa Bay Turkey Vultures
• Trevor’s Birding: Red-winged Parrot
• primo piano: Loki’s Pet
• Robin’s Nesting Place: What a Thrill!
• xenogere: Bad Birds of Aransas
• 10,000 Birds: Bird Feeders in Forest Park
• Rock Paper Lizard: Mobs
• Birdchick Blog: Canopy Lodge Field Trips and Hidden Tropical Screech Owl
• Edhat: Baby Hummingbirds
• Susan Gets Native: Big Red
• Body Soul and Spirit: Gray Jay Nesting Season
• Aimophila Adventures: I’m Sorry… Barrow’s Goldeneye
• From the Notebook…: Waxing Lyrical…
• Wanderin’ Weeta With Waterfowl (and Weeds): Just another beachy afternoon ~ Crows, splashing Dogs and Starfish boarded 2/20
• Montanagirl: The Watcher boarded 2/20
• Hakodate Birding: Some Common Winter Birds boarded 2/20

Other Vertebrates

• xenogere: The Time Machine ~ House of Herps #3
• Laelaps: Photo of the Day #857 ~ Coyote
• Rural Ramblings: Still Snowy
• Take Joy!: Cats in baskets ~ Jane and Kali and Bonus Goat ~ Daisy
• Trevor’s Birding: Emus
• Places and People, My View with A Laugh: Dragon at The Window and Whiskers
• Justin’s Random Thoughts: Another one from Houston’s zoo
• Wanderin’ Weeta With Waterfowl (and Weeds): Flatlands ~ Grazing Goats and Sheep boarded 2/20
• The Urban Pantheist: African Lion, Panthera leo boarded 2/20

Dogs

• Blog d’Elisson: Pugly ~ Meet Honey Bunny and /Pugly Hakuna
• The Devil Dog: Wordless Wednesday
• Two Special Wires: Car Time
• Cicero Sings: Grayness
• Smokey Mountain Breakdown: Tandava On Up The Staircase
• Duck Pond: Friday Night Dog Blog ~ Falling Short: Sasha and Dexter
• Ironicus Maximus: Friday Hound Blogging ~ Senna is approachable, gentle, and calm
• Wanderin’ Weeta With Waterfowl (and Weeds): Just another beachy afternoon ~ Crows, splashing Dogs and Starfish boarded 2/20
• Knatolee’s World: Winter Wanderings ~ Tristan and Sophie boarded 2/20

Invertebrates

• Kind of Curious: The Ponderous Borer
• From the Notebook…: Public Moths
• Dharma Bums: Wordless Wednesday ~ What We Saw On Monday
• Niches: Skipper Fly, Prochyliza xanthostoma
• Poppy Q: Itchy
• Essex Moths blog: March Moth and Dotted Border
• Myrmecos Blog: Friday Beetle Blogging ~ Ostoma Bark-Gnawing Beetle, Ostoma pippingskoeldi
• Wanderin’ Weeta With Waterfowl (and Weeds): Just another beachy afternoon ~ Crows, splashing Dogs and Starfish boarded 2/20
• Skev’s B.L.O.G.: Mothing Memories ~ Birch Mocha, Small Chocolate-tip and Four-spotted Chaser boarded 2/20
• Nature in the Ozarks: Baltimore Bomolocha (Hypena baltimoralis) boarded 2/20

In Memoriam

• No Deep Thoughts: Kate 3/28/07 – 2/16/10

Didn’t Make It

• x

Exceptions (inclusion not guaranteed)

• x

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 309th edition, 2/14, is up at Nikita’s Place
  • The 310th edition , 2/21, will be hosted at When Cats Attack!

• Weekend Cat Blogging which goes up every weekend
• The 245th edition, 2/13-14, is up at The Sour Dough
• The 246th edition, 2/20-21, will be hosted by Dancing With Billy Sweetfeets
• Bad Kitty Cats Festival of Chaos which goes up monthly
• The 112th edition, 2/8 is up at Nikita’s Place
• The 113th edition, March 7, will be hosted by the House of Chaos
• 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 119th edition , 2/18 is up at Somewhere In NJ
• The 120th edition, 3/4, will be hosted by Sand Creek Almanac

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

• The 47th edition, February, is up at Beetles in the Bush
• The 48th edition, March, will be hosted by The Modern Naturalist

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

• The 3rd edition, February, is up at xenogere
• The 4th edition, March, will be hosted by TBD

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