Possible Clues:

• Shy away
• Bird circling lake - a quail?
• Shrink back or wince
• The drawback perhaps to this is that it's so short at last
• Reflex response to a sudden pain
• Cringe
• Jerk produced note left in church
• Songbird circling large quail
• Start of line crossed by bird
• Bird seen round loch is quail