Possible Clues:

• Bird makes new beginning around the first of December
• Flier sporting communist emblem on top of tunic
• Bird named for its colorful breast and tail
• Bird seen in a colourful spring
• Bird beginning to swim in cherry pie
• The bird is angry, to begin with
• Singer's blushing debut
• Flushed, at the beginning, a bird
• Bird signalling rain later in the day?
• Small songbird