This happened to me a few years ago in York (England). I wanted to go through an open gate but this great big bird just sat down in the gap between the walls.

I didn't want to shoo him away and just had to wait until he'd stopped staring and me - possibly wondering who the hell I was and what I was doing - and got up and sashayed away in a blaze of blue and greens.

Beautiful birds who not only look like own the place but also act like it.