The above are terrible. Don't waste your time!
I made up another slide this time from my Blakemere sample (few miles from Colemere). Sample was essentially the plastic outer bag of a sandbag used to shore up a fishing peg I took the sample from. I honestly didn't expect much given the plastic nature of the sample but I couldn't have been more wrong!
Some of the life in this slide were so big it was impossible to fit in the shot. I could see some of them with the naked eye on the slide!
I'm assuming these are more fly/insect larvae, I'm still trying to find a good reference for waterbourne stuff.
Shot of the cells inside what I guess is an algae of some sort.
Going forward I have no idea on species or even genus/family, probably common as muck on here and for the water sources I took samples from but the anticipation of preparing a slide and then looking around it for life is something I never would have thought I'd find myself doing!
This one didn't move, and it also seemed to be sat on the body of something much larger which was wriggling occasionally.
Shot of the substrate (plastic structure of the sandbag).
Very small (realtively!), jelly like, seemed to move by pumping water through it's body (contracted as it propelled itself forwards). This was the only shot I went upto the 10x objective for.
Half decent shot of the "head" of some what I'm guessing is a larvae of some larger insect? There were a lot of these of various sizes (some almost 4-5 times the size of this one) (4x objective)
This was a very small (40x objective) jelly like organism. Again no idea what it is!
Enjoying some lunch?
Cilla organism? it had a lot of hairs on it used for propulsion
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