Possible Clues:

• Bird alit, scrabbling in bed
• 'Layer' carrying leaves initially, it being a bird
• Singer's sex appeal shown by line in film
• Firm at it trapping lake bird
• Not the first curry in bed for the bird!
• Black-headed small European songbird
• Bird died flying out of abandoned old attic
• Diminutive singer left note in jacket
• Bird turned tail, hiding in shelter
• Agile flyer without a tailcoat to remove