Has anyone else had a large number of birds in their stove/chimney this fall? Two winters ago I found the screen that came with my Simpson Dura-Liner completely stopped up about February. It was the only place I had a problem, as I only had about a cup or so of black dust in the rest of the 16 ft chimney. I decided to leave the screen off and that fall I did have a couple of birds fly down into the stove. This fall I have gotten about a dozen birds from the stove. It is not the same bird (dead birds don't come back). It has become a real problem as they are tearing the rope seal loose from around the damper door (Encore 2550 cat). I am going to try to put a larger screen up tomorrow, but I just wondered why one or two last year and a dozen or more this year. This is not a summer problem, it only started about 2 weeks ago and now it's 1 or 2 birds a day.