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

• Lost in the Cheese Aisle: Meet Bean
• It’s Morning Somewhere: Friday Cat Blogging ~ Grey Feather
• Why Now?: Friday Cat Blogging ~ A Gentleman of Leisure: Blaze
• Life from A Cat’s Perspective: Wordless Wednesday with Samantha & Clementine
• Meowsings of An Opinionated Pussycat: Tortie Tuesday ~ Proper Diet & Exercise Edition
• Real Art: Friday Cat Blogging ~ Roi and Reine
• It’s Morning Somewhere: Friday Cat Blogging ~ Parker Dmitri up close
• Why Now?: Friday Cat Blogging ~ Burning Eyes: Excise
• Meowsings of An Opinionated Pussycat: World Cat Day 2011 and Cats For Cats – Introduction
• The Second Half: Friday Cat Blogging ~ Undercover Cat: Pinchita
• Animal Shelter Volunteer Life: An Award and a Photo Contest
• Niches: Below the Radar ~ Violet
• Sherry Chandler: Griddlebone
• Fage: Fizz Friday Surpise
• Forever Foster: Floofy Friday
• Momma Grace & Company: Audace, master napper!
• Huffle Mawson, Explorer Cat: Thursday Ask Huffle
• Reading in the Dark: Friday Cat Blogging ~ The purr-fect cat snack!
• curlz and swirlz,…: Feline Fine Friday!
• Darling Millie: Finally Friday
• It’s All Good.: Tabby’s Place Forever Home Friday ~ Andre and Oscar
• Purrchance To Dream: happy Gotcha Day ~ Cabin Capers
• Mercury Rising: Friday Cat Blogging ~ Alexander the Great
• Our Furry Boys: A new decoration for the headboard
• Life from A Cat’s Perspective: We are hosting Weekend Cat Blogging #233
• CatSynth: Weekend Cat Blogging ~ Luna boarded 81/3
• konagod: Friday Pussy Blogging ~ Sissy, Tot, and Jessie Lee boarded 8/13
• Life from A Cat’s Perspective: Photo Hunt #278-ONE with Samantha, Clementine & Maverick; boarded 8/14
• Meowsings of An Opinionated Pussycat: Carnival of the Cats For Cats #387

Birds

• The Green Ogre: Encounter ~ The Coppersmith Barbet
• The Nemesis Bird: Photo Study ~ White-eyed Vireo
• The Greenbelt: A seething river of birds
• Country Captures: Hummer Heaven
• Trevor’s Birding: Australian magpie
• A DC Birding Blog: Loose Feathers #303 ~ Roseate Tern plus birding news
• Let’s Paint Nature: Tiger Swallow, Clearwing Humming Bird Moth, Milkweed Tussock Moth Caterpillar, and Swan Family
• Mike Randall Bird Photography: Wheatear
• Pamibe: Growing
• From the Notebook…: Sparrowhawk
• Outside My Window: Walks On WAter ~ African Jacana Chick
• Montanagirl: Snowy Egret
• Punctuated Equilibrium: Today’s Mystery Bird
• Rock Paper Lizard: Lost Bird
• pittswood birds: Swallows, Canada Geese, Pigeon, Common Blue, and Gatekeeper; boarded 8/13
• The Run*A*Round Ranch Report: Painted Buntings boarded 8/13
• Birding New Jersey and the World: Molty; boarded 8/13
• Hakodate Birding: Goosander and Harrier boarded 8/13
• Viewing Nature With Eileen: Hummingbirds and noisy Catbird boarded 8/13

Other Vertebrates

• Niches: Ernest
• What Do I Know: Friday Cow Blogging
• Disapproving Rabbits: Checkers

Invertebrates

• 10,000 Monkeys and a Camera: A non-Friday Creature ~ spider
• Anybody Seen My Focus: Two-striped Forceptail (Aphylla williamsoni)
• The Ohio Nature Blog: A Mating Ambush Bugs
• Seabrooke Leckie: Mating Ambush Bugs
• Skev’s B.L.O.G.: BArden Tick, Mompha propinquella, and More
• Let’s Paint Nature: Tiger Swallow, Clearwing Humming Bird Moth, Milkweed Tussock Moth Caterpillar, and Swan Family
• Wanderin’ Weeta With Waterfowl (and Weeds): Ladybug All growed up now
• A Little Piece of Me: Monarch Caterpillar
• Knatolee’s World: Another Day, Another Spider
• PNAS Classified: Drosophilid Fly Larva, Chymomyza costata!!
• pittswood birds: Swallows, Canada Geese, Pigeon, Common Blue, and Gatekeeper; boarded 8/13
• Backyard and Beyond: Two Wasps boarded 8/13

Dogs

• Real Art: Friday Cat Blogging ~ Canine Edition! Kuzco
• The Devil Dog: Thursday Treats
• Duck Pond: Friday Night Dog Blog ~ Cancer Calls: Sasha and Dexter

Ironicus Maximus: Friday Hound Blogging ~ Pinocchio

• Mountain Musings: Fridays are Golden ~ Ellie and Lucy
• CowSpotDog: All in the day of a pup
• Body Soul and Spirit: Raven doing Pilates
• Life from A Cat’s Perspective: Photo Hunt #278-ONE with Samantha, Clementine & Maverick; boarded 8/14

In Memoriam

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Didn’t Make It

• x

Exceptions (inclusion not guaranteed)

• x

Cat folks: remember to submit your links to:

• Carnival of the Cats which goes up every Sunday
  • The 386th edition, 8/7, is up at CatSynth
  • The 385th edition , 7/31, will be hosted by Meowsings of an Opinionated Pussycat

• Weekend Cat Blogging which goes up every weekend
• The 322nd Edition, 8/6-7, is up at CatSynth
• The 323rd edition, 8/13-14, will be hosted by Life From A Cat’s Perspective
• Bad Kitty Cats Festival of Chaos
• The 122nd and last edition,12/22/2010, is up at Meowsings of an Opinionated Pussycat

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

• The 149th, and last, edition , 4/30 is up at Twin Cities Naturalist

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

• The 40th edition, August, is up at EvoEcoLab
• The 65th edition, September, will be hosted by Cephalopodiatrist

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

• The 16th edition, March, will be hosted by Worm Salad
• The 17th edition, April, 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