Eagles
Illustration★★★★Flight of I once saw a very interesting sight above one of the crags of Ben Nevis, as I was going, on the 20th of August, in the pursuit of black game. Two parent eagles were teaching their offspring, two young birds, the maneuvers of flight. They began by rising from the top of a mountain in the eye of the sun. It was about midday, and bright for this climate.
They at first made small circles, and the — birds imitated them. They paused on their wings, waiting till they had made their first flight, and then took a second and larger gyration, always rising towards the sun, and enlarging their circle of flight, so as to make a gradually extending spiral.
The young ones still slowly followed, apparently flying better as they mounted; and they continued this sublime kind of exercise, always rising, till they became mere points in the air, and the young ones were lost, and afterwards their parents, to our aching sight. Sir Humphrey Davy.
The point
Parent eagles teach their young to fly by spiraling ever higher toward the sun, a picture of leading others upward to greater heights.