Birds of a feather

[granny grump]

Please can you help me finish these quiz

Birds of a feather

1 This boy loves to be on the beach (4 6)
14 Rides the waves in the Lakes (4)
16 Jock performs at the sea side (9)
19 Should we replace the roof (8)
21 At No 10 (3)
26 If you are late you will miss the boat (4)
28 Not three pigs, just one pig (6)
31 Like an echo far away (11)
57 Converse with Sharon (9)

I am struggling a bit as not very good on birds or cryptics so the two together leave me flumoxed

[wallacia]

1,sand martin.

[oldwoman]

16 Sandpiper

[wallacia]

57,stonechat.

[petal54]

14 ness

[wallacia]

21,jay,10th letter of the alphabet.

[johnalex]

31. Mockingbird ? . . . . why far away ??

[granny grump]

Thank you wallacia, old woman and petal54

Is Ness a bird - I've never heard of it and can't link it to the lakes can you explain it please petal54?

[oldwoman]

14. Wonder if it is Swan as in the ballet?

[granny grump]

Thank you johnalex - like you can't see the conection with 'faraway' Thank you old woman I have already got Swan Lake in answer to another question but I know sometimes the setters use the same answer for different clues - throws me again

[Caribeing]

19. Nuthatch {Sounds like new thatch}

[granny grump]

Thank you Mary T - I wouldn't have got that in a month of Sundays

Just a thought johnalex perhaps the faraway refers to the fact that it is a foreign bird?

[wallacia]

could 28 be pigeon,anagram one pig.

[granny grump]

thank you wallacia I like that

[Caribeing]

Hello granny grump, not sure whether or not you still need answers to your birds of a feather quiz: 31, Hummingbird! 26. Teal anagram of late?

[johnalex]

31. Hello gg, forget Mockingbird and Hummingbird (sorry Mary!).
Answered elsewhere as NIGHTINGALE (from Rod Stewart song) . . . .

"Our homeward step was just as light
As the tap-dancing feet of Astaire
And, like an echo far away,
A nightingale sang in Berkeley Square"

Full credit to Slaney for this answer.

[granny grump]

Thank you Mary T and johnalex sorry for taking so long to reply and for asking the Teal question again tonight. I used to get an email to say I had an answer but that has gone by the way now - so belatedly thank you both