Possible Clues:

• Wool from fleece protects sore finally
• Flock of wild fowl
• If 'e is in the hide, there's a yarn in it
• Flight of birds elegant at first in film
• Loosely coiled length of thread
• Cat's plaything
• Starts on some Kafka: a German yarn
• Geese flying east into cover
• Breaking surface, last of three geese flying
• Birds, partridge, finally breaking cover