Next set of observations from the same sample of pond water from my backyard (also includes some moss from the tree in the front yard). IMPORTANT: this time, I did not ingest any pond water at all. Yay for small victories!
I’ve enjoyed this enough I really want to consider getting a “real” microscope.
I don’t really have terribly good identifications for all of this.
I think this is an ostracod. It was about 2/3 mm long.
I’m not sure what this is. Maybe another ostracod? It was about 1.5mm long.
I have no idea what’s going on here. On the lower right, I think is an ostracod. The rest of the object seems to be the carcass of an insect, perhaps? About 2mm long.
A better photo of a copepod with eggs:
The individual cells in this plant?
a little wild 
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