I'm in Scotland Tim.

Microscope is Swift SW380t , which is trinocular and comes with a top camera. Sample was from my garden wildlife pond .
No record of size but certainly not visible to eye . Do you check out 'Amateur Microscopy' faceboook group ? I tend to post my pond finds there .

If you are also into butterflies, Burnmouth is a hot spot for Small Blue

Yes , Had this one at Hunterston. Never had them at Torness ,but find them commonly at Hartlepool power station . The Scottish range of Drinker is very bias towards west due to mild winters in gulf stream

New to microscopy ,you'll need to explain what details please

Not put on irecord yet so not sure ,though I would have had expected to spot the caterpillars before now if it was common

Turns out it is a Rotifer, but still a 'first' to me,so happy days !

Turns out they are Polycelis tenuis ,a common type of pond flatworm living on diatoms and other miniscule prey in the surface film by night . A favourite food source is the floating husks of flies sucked hollow by pond skaters .By day they are mere stationary buds (pic below)

Re this particular weasel , the screenshot was grabbed from a frantic 9 minutes of non stop zoomies as it shot around in a blur through the many mouse and vole burrows which are connected to this main hole . Maybe in sheer joy but more likely to take a mouse or vole by surprise !

Thanks Katty ,seems the longer I study Nature the more the scientific names I know get changed !

2. It almost spanned the full length of the newt and was c. 6cm span.
It retreated into the wall but when the newt moved again, same thing happened . I suspect T. gigantea . Is this likely locally ,or is another tegentaria sp more likely in a rockery/wall ?