He [Christopher North] speaks in his "Second Canticle" of "the imps," "theeaglets," "the young ones," "the bursting of the shells," as though it were the commoner occurrence for there to beseveraleaglets in a nest. This is not the case.
1879 January, Ellis Clare, “The Christmas Eaglet”, inBallou's Monthly Magazine, volume49, number 1, Boston: Thomes & Talbot:
Alas! in the morning theeaglet was gone; and, full of sorrow, they stooped to pick up the shining fleece with which the floor was spread. At their touch, every feather became a golden coin.
Once theeaglets are born—tiny balls of white fuzz—the adult eagles prove that birds can be as protective and solicitous of their young as humans. They'll rip food into bite-size pieces for theeaglets and stand ceaseless watch over the eyrie.
