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His next two years in the river were his happiest.
The river was one enormous playground and his world was full of new responsibilities.
Both Stanley and his family learnt to care for the continuous supply of fresh orphans.
He saw plenty of adult fish.
But they always moved upstream, anxious to add to the nursery further upriver.
He marvelled at their power in the water, and took like a child does with a parent to imitating their fin and tail movements.....
Of course, as Stanley grew, he also became a bigger target for the many predators that searched his domain._
The big brown trout were the most dangerous.
They would sit behind large rocks, or under cover of trees which hung over the river.

On one occasion, Stanley and some of his brothers swam into the territory of one of these trout.
At first it ignored them and they were happy to swim alongside the giant.
Then completely without warning, it snapped into the shoal and swallowed two of the tiny parr.
They scattered in all directions.

He learned to keep out of the way of predators, very quickly after that adventure.
It became a daily ritual, one that only the quickest and smartest of tiny parr learned to live with.
As he grew, he moved further downstream.
He learnt the currents of the river and moved comfortably through them, always moving, forcing the water through his gills and gleaning the oxygen from it._
He fed from the bottom dwellers and the nymphs and wet flies that used the river as a womb.
Feeding in one area until the competition for food exceeded the supply and Stanley and his brothers moved further downstream.

His days as a parr were like the years of childhood, full of fun and full of danger....

He soon transcended his two years as a parr, and moved downriver with winter's great storms and big water, to the Estuary......

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from The Salmon​’​s Tail - Story and Music - J, released June 21, 2018
Phil Bancroft - Whistle and Soprano Sax
Kevin Murray Mandolin

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Kevin Murray Dundee, UK

Composer, Musician, Songwriter - Tunesmith is shorter!
lives with a cat in a Glen in Scotland where the local wildlife tolerates and encourages students of Music.
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