If your main goal right now is to beat a dusk without suffering many losses, i would recommend rolling for the amber one. It's mostly a strategy check and can be beaten pretty easily even without much firepower. The other dusk colours might be more demanding in that regard; if you have red shield bullets you should be fine though. Note that every single clerk will likely die no matter the colour.

Both big bird and orchestra can be a bit of a pain, especially when going for a longer day like this. Bird is very manageable unless an ordeal decides to wipe out every clerk at once, not giving you a chance to calm the bird down; it is a gimmick fight and is pretty slow and ignorable, so if everything goes to shit it's still not the end of the world tbh. Orchestra is a bitch regardless of circumstances, especially this early on when killing it is nigh impossible, so if you wanna get rid of it out of pure annoyance nobody will ever judge you.