Pied flycatchers, Kelpies and Perry.

Why counting the eggs of Pied Flycatchers can tell us lots about climate change, why the Australian dog, the Kelpie is becoming popular on farms in Wales and this is not just any Perry this is Silver Lady!

Country Focus - Sunday 17th May at 07.30am presented by Mel Doel.

We've all heard of dogs being microchipped but now the RSPCA are urging ferret owners are to get thier pets microchipped. The advice follows an increase in the number of the animals found straying in the Cardiff area. The Ferrect microchip phone line is 0300 1238484

The movements of birds can tell us a lot about changes in our environment. At Maentwrog nature reserve in the Vale of Ffestiniog they've been counting the eggs of Pied Flycatchers, small sparrow-sized birds that fly in from Africa to breed each spring and are discovering that they've been arriving earlier and earlier each year. It's all part of the Bird Atlas to be completed by 2011 - and you can volunteer to help.

A group of North Wales farmers are to launch a brand new club this week aimed at promoting a particular breed of dog that is becoming increasingly popular on Welsh farms. Kelpies originate from Australia and have a natural instinct and aptitude in the working of sheep and other livestock - making them particularly suitable for Welsh farms.

Wales has already produced one World Champion, paralympic gold medal winning dressage rider, in the form of Nicola Tustain from Denbighshire. She was born with right hemiplegia, a condition which produces paralysis down her right side. But how difficult is it to adapt to a disability if it comes upon you suddenly? We meet Fiona Care from Manorowen in north Pembrokeshire lost a leg three years ago after contracting MRSA. Already a keen rider, Fiona has since taken up para dressage, and - after a matter of months - is already starting to collect rosettes.

Brewing at home has become a popular past time of late, but for most of us what we produce will probably only be ever good enough to drink at home. Not so though for the two brothers behind the fledging brewery Bragdyr Brody which they've developed in their shed. Alan and Richard Williams have taken home brew to a whole new level winning the Welsh Perry and Cider Championships two years in a row.

Artists and sculptors in the Teifi Valley in West Wales have created a trail from art studio to art studio to show visitors not only the different styles of work they do - but to take them through the different landscapes which inspire them. Be it coastal cliffs above Cardigan Bay - or the intensely rich riverbank woodland around Newcastle Emlyn. Country Focus takes a tour of the trail.