Possible Clues:

• Number hurry after the tailless bird
• Air complaint for Mavis
• Winger's shorts hung awkwardly
• Bird in air briefly forced upon top of house
• Imagine getting a bad mouth perhaps singing in the trees
• Air that way maintains right height for bird
• Mavis's lad G. Hurst trained at West Ham
• One in flight from roughly shorn thugs
• Turdus philomelos
• Mavis snorts 'Hugh is being silly!'