The UCSC arboretum was closed for a while, but now it’s open and they offer occasional early morning openings for members (like us!). We got up at five this morning to take our binoculars, camera, and coffee up there to greet the morning.
I’ve been using the Sony A7RIV with 200-600 mm lens, but for today I added a new 1.4x converter, which seems to help. It was a gloomy marine-layer morning, but the sun burned through just enough to allow a few photos with the new setup.