This One's for the Birds

Q:


Find an answer for each "crossword" clue.  Drop one letter from your answer to get the name of a common bird.  Take the first letter of each bird name and you will have seven consecutive letters in the alphabet, not necessarily in order.

1.  Put it on the short grass  

2.  A chase involving no running

3.  Taking the edge off

4.  Addict's bane

5.  Bonk on the noggin

6.  Brave men seldom do it

7.  Hale's rue

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See-ming Lee

A:

1.  A golf reference, put being past tense - drove

2.  Chase being a channel, ravine or in this case - gully

3.  Not talking imbibing here - blunting

4.  Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, John Belushi, etc. - heroin

5.  As a noun, it's a noggin.  As a verb, it's the bonk - crown

6.  And sometimes they get punched in the face - flinch

7.  Hale as in Nathan.  Rue as in - regret

In order:

Bunting    Crow    Dove    Egret    Finch    Gull    Heron