Eagles Teach Men How to be Good Fathers

Do you know how a female chooses a father for her eaglets? She does such an interesting thing.

She breaks off a twig from a tree or bush, takes it in her beak, rises to a great height and begins to circle there with this twig. Eagles begin to fly around the female, then she throws this branch down and watches. And then some eagle picks up this branch in the air, preventing it from falling, and then brings it to the female very carefully, from beak to beak.

The eagle takes this branch and throws it down again, the male catches it again and brings it to her, and she throws it again... And this is repeated many, many times. If, over a certain period of time and repeated throwing of the branch, the eagle picks it up each time, then the female chooses him, and they mate with him.

Why she does this, you will understand later.

Then they gather high on a rock, make a nest from hard twigs, sparse, hard enough, and mom and dad begin to tear out fluff and feathers from themselves, from their own flesh, with their beaks. They line the nest with this down and feathers, fill all the holes in it, make it soft and warm. The eagle lays eggs in such a soft and warm nest, then they hatch the chicks. When eaglets appear (and they come to the Light of God so small, naked, and weak), the parents cover them with their bodies until they get stronger. They shield them from the rain and the scorching sun with their wings, bring them water and food, and the chicks grow. Their feathers begin to grow, their wings and tail become stronger.

And now they have already fledged, although they are still small. Then mom and dad see that it’s time...
 
Dad sits on the edge of the nest and begins to beat on it with his wings: threshing, beating, shaking this nest. For what? In order to knock out all the feathers and fluff, so that only the rigid frame of branches that they wove and folded at the very beginning remains. And the chicks are sitting in this shaken out nest, they are uncomfortable, hard, and they don’t understand what happened: after all, mommy and daddy used to be so affectionate and caring. At this time, the mother flies somewhere, catches a fish and sits about five meters from the nest so that the chicks can see. Then, in full view of its chicks, it begins to slowly eat this fish. The chicks are sitting in the nest, screaming, squeaking, and don’t understand what happened, because before everything was different. Mom and Dad fed them, gave them water, and now everything is gone: the nest has become hard, the feathers and fluff are gone, and the parents themselves eat the fish, but they don’t give it to them.
 
What to do? You want to eat, you have to get out of the nest. And then the chicks begin to make movements that they have never done before. They would not continue to do them if their parents continued to babysit them. The chicks begin to crawl out of the nest. Here the eaglet falls out, so clumsy, still can’t do anything, doesn’t know anything. The nest stands on a rock, on a steep cliff, so that no predators can get close. The chick breaks off this slope, rides along it on its belly, and then flies into the abyss. And then dad (the one who once caught the twigs) rushes headlong down and catches this eaglet on his back, not allowing it to break. And then, on his back, he lifts him again into the uncomfortable nest, again onto the rock, and everything starts all over again. These chicks fall, and the father catches them.
 
And the Father caught them like an eagle on His back. The eagles never break a single eaglet.

And at some point during the fall, the eaglet begins to make a movement that it has never made before: it spreads its lateral wings in the wind, getting into the air flow and thus begins to fly. This is how eagles teach their chicks. And as soon as the chick begins to fly on its own, the parents take it with them and show it the places where the fish are found. They no longer carry it in his beak.

This is a very good example of how we should raise our children. How important it is not to keep them in a warm nest! How important it is not to overfeed them with fish when they can already catch them themselves! But with what care we must teach them to fly, devoting our strength, and our time, and wisdom, and skills to this! It’s not for nothing that the female chooses the male by throwing a twig. She doesn't want her children to get killed. You choose a careless father without checking, and then you won’t have enough children... Eagles already have few chicks, one or two...
 
prot. Maxim Volynets