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When you think about the best places to go birding on the Cape, I’m guessing Hyannis is not first on your list. If you’re from here, Hyannis is the big city – the place you go once a week, the day after bath day, to get supplies for the homestead or sell your wares.

With last month’s rare bird sensation, the Vermilion Flycatcher, getting smaller in the rear-view mirror, it seemed like maybe we’d get a break from weird, lost flycatchers around here.

A few weeks ago we wrote about a rare ash-throated flycatcher that should have been in Mexico on its wintering range but that had appeared in Biddeford Pool. As we noted, there is pattern of rare flycatchers showing up in Maine (and other parts of...