Hiker, following bird, crosses the road recklessly (9)
I believe the answer is:
jaywalker
'hiker' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'bird crosses the road recklessly' is the wordplay.
'bird' becomes 'jay' (jay is a kind of bird).
'crosses the road recklessly' becomes 'walker' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'jay'+'walker'='JAYWALKER'
'following' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for jaywalker that I've seen before include "Careless pedestrian, a danger to motorists" , "Middle-of-the-road pedestrian" , "Reckless urban pedestrian" , "one taking risks on road" , "Person crossing the road dangerously" .)