@angelanoske
Are you familiar with this, it might be this. Its in its resting phase at the moment. It usually grows on disturbed grazing areas.
Locality: NEW ZEALAND AK, Western Springs Park.
Habitat: Common in a small pond at night (9 p.m.)
Identification: Mesostoma ehrenbergii (Focke, 1836).
seeds observed in dung https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/110377068
Section of fruit - showing partitions containing seeds. Each seed has a gelatinous sheath. The fruits look like swollen flower buds - but have pulled under the surface of the water. The seeds are favoured food of pygmy geese.
This plant is growing in the water, peeping through the walkway above. Several of them at this hide.
Неподвижная клетка. Снято на телефон под любительским микроскопом, из цветочного горшка.
The cell don't move. Photo taken with the phone using amateur microscope. The cell is from ground.
Mag. 400x (progression of focal planes)
Pollen? Anyone one know of a handy online reference for identifying the pollen of various plants?
A pond-edge water sample was collected on 6/2/2021 using a 10 micron dip net to enrich for microorganisms. Air temp. 67F
Continued observation of new bird bath obtained 20210503. This observation takes place after a 4-day heat wave, followed by a night of rain.
A conidium.
Unsure about the ID. It clearly has 2 skirts of cilia, one surrounding what appears to be a mouth (top in photo) and one that appears as a low-waisted, decorative fringe :o)
A pond-edge water sample was taken on 3/19/2021 using a 10 micron dip net to enrich for microorganisms. Air temp. 46F
Found in a small freshwater pond viewed at 400x mag. Grazing on filamentous green algae (3). Defecating (4). Turning around and vacuuming up its own fecal cloud (4,5). Yum. The consumption of algal cell contents can be seen between images 5 and 6.
Here the eggs are hatching and the larva are dispersing.
Cf. the structure housing the eggs.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/67698787
After historically planted American Ash were cut down in the Sanctuary, a massive seed bank created a seedling forest. Pic 2 shows removal by tree popper. Fortunately, the grassland has rehabilitated.
Pic 1 is a coppiced stump. These trees grow readily in wet/marshy conditions.