As I walked to work this morning I came across a small cockerel on the pavement near where I live*. When he saw me walking close, he sort of wobbled over to me and bobbed his head at me.
I took a step back. He followed me a bobbed his head around (side to side and up/down). I managed to walk all the way back to the gate where it lives with him following me and doing the head-bob around my feet. Then it starts pecking at my flip-flops. It was quite tame, so I could stroke it and managed to get it inside it's own garden, but what the hell was the head bobbing about? And why peck my feet?
*it's owners often leave their gate open and the chickens escape. Never seem to get run over and wander back in later in the morning.