I spotted this mobile microscope in a sale at the RSPB Shop at Fairburn Ings and decided to give it a try.
This sea mat colony on a crab shell was photographed at the lowest magnification, which ranges from 20-200x. With the unaided eye, I can see it only as a stipple. There’s part of a barnacle shell in the bottom left corner.
Hornwrack is another colonial animal, which looks like dried up seaweed when you find it on the strandline. This 20x view shows the individual cells that the bryozoan filter-feeding occupants lived in.
