This is a photographic summary of the main seabird and cetacean sightings from our 2019 pelagic season to early September, illustrated by Joe Pender’s photos. For full details and decisions on rare seabirds see the ISBG Bird & Natural History Review 2019. The highlight of the year was the three Fea’s Petrels seen within three weeks. We also saw a total of 39 Wilson’s Storm-petrels, a Leach’s Storm-petrel (rare off Scilly) and had sensational views of up to 400 European Storm-

Even late in the season, you never quite know what you're going to bump in to in the seas around the Isles of Scilly. With only a handful of punters onboard, we enjoyed great views of grey phalarope, arctic skua, great skua and distant views of Sabine's gull. By far the bird of the trip though, and arguably one of the best birds of the year (!), was identified by skipper Joe Pender. He noted that one of the phalaropes in a group of three had a markedly thinner and pointier bi