This past Saturday I attended my second "Extreme Pelagic" trip of the year. One of the reasons these are billed as "extreme pelagics" is that they are all day trips. And I don't mean "all day" in that we go out at dawn and are home by dinner. We board at 3:30am in Hyannis, and get in about 10:30pm. It is a long, but usually satisfying day. We headed out again to Atlantis Canyon, which is where the warmest waters were, and had a bit of a rough time of it going out, but the seas settled down one we made it past the contintal shelf. On the last trip (three weeks ago) we had an embarrassment of riches in that we saw thousands of Greater, hundreds of Cory's, as well as a few Manx and Sooty Shearwaters, large numbers of Wilson's Storm Petrels with a few Leach's, and amazing numbers of sea mammals. This time, it seemed quality was the word instead of quantity. Numbers were low, but we had Band-Rumped Storm Petrels mixed with the the Wilson's, (and a Leach's or two again), two immature Long-tailed Jaegers that provided excellent looks (which even an neophyte pelagic birder like myself was able to see the field marks), and the highlight was a young Bridled Tern that stayed with the boat for a while. Even with the lower than expected numbers, we had a boat full of very happy birders.
The Wilson's Storm Petrels were as common. 
One of the two immature Long-tailed Jaegers that were so accomodating.
The Greater Shearwaters were certainly fewer in number than expected.
And the highlight of the day for pretty much everybody on the boat was this young Bridled Tern, that flew over the bow (and I was very luck to get this almost in-focus shot) then stayed with us for a short time, making sure that everybody got good looks.
