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

• Real Art: Friday Cat Blogging ~ Evil Roi and Reine & Dash
• Ego: Morris
• Lost in the Cheese Aisle: Sparkle ~ Hakuna and Hakuna: Surly Girlie
• Life from A Cat’s Perspective: Finally Friday with Samantha & Clementine
• Why Now?: Friday Cat Blogging ~ Tip, Brave’s New World, Molly, Wishing & Hoping and This Is Florida?
• Crazy Cat Lady Carm: Moonlight-Kitty and Sunshine Kitty…
• Women Who Serve: Friday cat blogging ~ winter sunshine edition
• Allan Thinks: What?
• Katnip Lounge: May Ling
• All About Lacocoon Dante: Snow Bath
• Bunny Trails: Where’s the mouse?
• 10,000 Monkeys and a Camera: Friday Creature ~ a lovely cat
• Real Art: Friday Cat Blogging ~ Reine & Dash
• konagod: Friday Pussy Blog ~ Snow Cat Edition: Sweet Pea, Tot and Sissy
• Cat Whisperer: Cold and Snow and Sleep ~ Rascal, Sylvester, Tristan, Bandito and Chaiyka
• Writer & Cat: Who Gets the Chair?
• Take Joy!: Victoria Enjoys the Sun
• William of Mass Destruction: Snowdays With Russell
• Our Furry Boys: I Spy With My Little Eye
• We Love Luna: Oh no…snow!
• Knatolee’s World: Ruglets
• It’s Morning Somewhere: Friday cat blogging ~ Grey Feather, Zorro, Werro and Beanbag again! Grey Feather
• The Poupenette: SEIturday Supervising ~ Sei-Chan boarded 2/5
• Sidewalk Shoes: Weekend Cat Blogging #296
• CatSynth: Weekend Cat Blogging ~ Luna boarded 2/5
• Life from A Cat’s Perspective: It Snowed In TX with Samantha, Clementine & Maverick; boarded 2/6

Birds

• The Nemesis Bird: Snow Hawks
• Slugyard: I and the Bird CXLIII
• Gouldiae’s Blog: Camouflaged
• The Birder’s Report: Acorn Woodpeckers and Dark-eyed Junco Compete for Suet
• Birdchick Blog: Hawk On A Deer Carcass
• Vickie Hendeson Art: Wild Turkey and Eastern Bluebirds
• West Seattle Blog: Eagle Family goes fishing off Alki
• Pure Florida: Pigeons? We Don’t Need No Stinking Pigeons!
• Aimophila Adventures: California Scaup & Gambel’s Quail, Mourning Doves and Cooper’s Hawk
• Nature in the Ozarks: White-throated Sparrow (Zonotrichia albicollis)
• Dawns bloggy blog: Birding Merritt Island NWR
• A Little Piece of Me: Friday Feathers ~ Joy in the Morning
• A DC Birding Blog: Loose Feathers #276 ~ Common Eider and birding news
• 10,000 Birds: Florida Scrub-Jay
• Trevor’s Birding: Flamingos
• Milepebbles: swans at dusk
• Wanderin’ Weeta With Waterfowl (and Weeds): Bird silhouettes on tinted mud
• It’s Morning Somewhere: Friday cat blogging ~ Beanbag again! Grey Feather and Flying Kitties
• Trees, Plants & More: Pigeon Saga – Day 6; boarded 2/5
• Walk the Wilderness: Birding in India ~ Himalayan Bulbul boarded 2/6

Other Vertebrates

• back yard draft: Sunday Trot Trotting
• The Vacation Gals: Sea Turtle Conservation in Action Video>
• Esther Garvi: Camel Beauty
• A Houseful of Rabbits: Story time, Bunns ….
• First Draft: Friday Ferret Blogging ~ Warmth Edition
• 10,000 Monkeys and a Camera: Friday Creature ~ a baby goat
• Anybody Seen My Focus: Hmmm… Should I Or Shouldn’t I?
• Adventures of Freckles and Deb: Happy Year of Freckles!
• Dipper Ranch: Beefeaters of the Santa Cruz Mountains; boarded 2/5
• Throwback At Trapper Creek: Nothin’ Better Than… boarded 2/6
• DDD: Frog boarded 2/6
• A Penny For Your Flops: Snowflakes in the eyelashes ~ Hugs boarded 2/6

Dogs

• Duck Pond: Friday Night Dog Blog ~ Rain As Metaphor: Dexter and Sasha, Alertness to Danger ~ Sasha and Dexter,Deja Vu ~ Dexter and Sasha and Transitions ~ Sasha and Dexter
• Farmgirl Fare: Tuesday Dose of Cute ~ Ahem
• Val’s Bien: Another Snow Storm ~ Casey
• Scratchings and Sniffings: Puppies in Love! Chester and Emily
• 10,000 Monkeys and a Camera: Friday Creature ~ Nonnie and a snowy dog: Otis
• Tbogg: Thursday Night Basset Blogging
• red lake rosie’s rescue: Hello from Sweet as a Tootsie roll or Sody-pup 😉
• Ironicus Maximus: Friday Hound Blogging ~ Bill is really sweet and loving
• Duck Pond: Friday Night Dog Blog ~ Turn, Turn: Sasha and Dexter
• Neil Gaiman: Cats in the Sauna ~ Sun boarded 2/6
• Life from A Cat’s Perspective: It Snowed In TX with Samantha, Clementine & Maverick; boarded 2/6
• Throwback At Trapper Creek: Nothin’ Better Than… boarded 2/6

Invertebrates

• Listening Earth Blog: Summer Spiders
• Gouldiae’s Blog: Camouflaged
• The Nature of Robertson: February – The Month of Insects
• 10,000 Monkeys and a Camera: Friday Creature ~ Butterfly
• Pharyngula: Friday Cephalopod ~ Vividly molluscan
• Wanderin’ Weeta With Waterfowl (and Weeds): Last year’s critters, Hermits, hairy, blue, orange, Snail and hermit mystery, and a cute globular springtail
• The Backyard Arthropod Project: Banded Millipede boarded 2/5
• Outside My Window: Brown Marmorated Stink Bug boarded 2/6
• Fall To Climb: Tiger Moth Caterpillar

In Memoriam

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Didn’t Make It

• Paleoblog: Titanoceratops… or…

Exceptions (inclusion not guaranteed)

• Mad Kane’s Humor Blog: Kitty Limerick

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 359th edition, 1/30, is up at Katz and Other Tales
  • The 360th edition , 2/6, will be hosted by CatSynth

• Weekend Cat Blogging which goes up every weekend
• The 295th edition, 1/29-30, is up at CatSynth
• The 296th edition, 2/4-6, will be hosted by Pam’s Sidewalk Shoes
• Bad Kitty Cats Festival of Chaos which goes up monthly
• Not sure if this will continue; no activity for a while.
• The 121st edition, November, is up at Meowsings of an Opinionated Pussycat
• The 122nd edition, December, will be hosted by Three Tabby Cats in Vienna

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

• The 143rd edition , 2/3 is up at Slugyard
• The 144th edition, 2/17/2011, will be hosted by Greg Laden

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

• The 58th edition, January, is up at the Cephalove
• The 59th edition, February, will be hosted by
  the Shell and Mantle

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

• The 14th edition, January, is up at The Little House in the Not-So-Big Woods
• The 15th edition, February, will be hosted by Philly Herping

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