abstract: Garden birds are benefiting from a new Heritage Lottery-funded project that combines meals on wheels for older people with food for their feathered friends. Age Concern's meals on wheels team in Acomb, near Hexham, has teamed up with the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds to deliver feasts for both clients and birds. The memories that older people have about changes to bird populations and the countryside are to be recorded as part of the project, which, Age Concern says, has already had a positive impact - on both people and birds.