What an experience to see and photograph that. How cute and very intelligent these creatures are.
In August my wife and I watched a very tiny harvest mouse pop in out from under a hedge and nibble at an apple core. Over about half and hour it gradually moved it about 3 inches and under the hedge only for a blackbird to come along and pull it out into the open. Having said that after the blackbird and chick had had their fill the mouse eventually nudged and pulled the apple core back under the hedge, and totally out of sight. Over a few days we put out apple cores and the mouse came out and gradually it tugged all the apple cores under the hedge. Storing up for winter I have no doubt.

I am going to have a test with 1/1000 shutter and let you know how I get on.

I had been trying to avoid too high shutter speed because of the trade off with higher ISO but I know you are correct.

I have only been using the convertor today for BIF (Red Kites) so its early days but I seem to have more throw away images due to fuzzy images than without the converter. Only a handful of 127 photos were usable and even then they seem to not be perfectly on focus. See the photo in the gallery which is the best of todays shots. link
Any thoughts would be greatly received. Camera a K3ll was set to F8 1/500 sec, ISO set to auto in this case 200 iso, focus priority. RAW image processed in Adobe PSE 2021

Is it a thingy

I had know idea however a quick Google search makes me think it is an Amaryllis seed pod. link

I love the Morris Minor van and the humour of the owners, see the sign writing "Tappet and Crank, Motor Engineers"

A wonderful set of memories, the trouble is several similar cars I was working on during my early days as an apprentice/motor mechanic. Brilliant photos it looks like the sun was just perfect.

I admit I have mistaken the odd camera photo with those taken on a DSLR however I like the feel of a real camera with a viewfinder. Welcome to the Forum by the way.

I dont think you are targeting the correct audience with that question