The above photo is full-frame. This is what happens when the owl starts flying and you are not ready. My lens was zoomed out at 280mm. Camera was on a monopod so I had to fidget with that. By the time I got a bead on the owl, it was too late to zoom out to get the whole owl into the frame.

What happened here is that the owl flew to a perch closer to another owl on the right. Then after a minute on the perch it flew back to its original perch high up a branch.

These owls could possibly stay at this location until end of March and maybe into early April as one did along Greenland Road in the Dunrobin area back during the last irruption in Winter 2008/2009.