lcapurro's Identifications

Spiral swimming if I remember right. Difficult to track.

Found in small grassy puddle with exposed soil on a rainy day. I stirred up the dirt before collecting a small vial of water. Only set up one slide moving the cover glass to two separate bits of water.

I know next to nothing about microscopic organisms and only recognized rotifers, maybe a diatom or two and I am assuming the very quick moving things I couldn't photograph were paramecia. I didn't photograph everything that caught my eye, mostly because it was tricky getting everything in focus with my phone and also tracking down the quick-moving organisms. I wasn't super organized about keeping track of magnification but I mostly shot at 100x with a few shots at 400x.

All my microscopy observations from today: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?on=2023-04-10&place_id=any&project_id=microscopy&user_id=joemdo

Microscopy project: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/microscopy