I would not be able to alter the stairwell in such a fashion. This is a commercial apartment complex with many other people living in the building. The mailboxes are also in this bottom-level stairwell, meaning it gets quite a bit of traffic aside from myself. I reiterate I have never seen another person help a frog, and the ratio has always been 1:1.
Other buildings in the apartment complex apparently also have this problem, as I asked someone who lived in another building if they’d ever seen a dead frog, and they said yes, on occasion, they see them when getting the mail. I did not ask if they saw any live frogs. There are at least 4 identical stairwells per building, and at least 6 buildings adjacent to a pond. This adds to my feelings of “this problem is too big for me.”
When I was a young child my dad was building an extension on our house. He dug a deep trench for the foundations and one morning I came down to find what my hazy memory suggests were thousands of baby frogs from a nearby lake. I spent some time ferrying buckets of tiny frogs from the trench to the top of our driveway in a bid to save them from their fate.
The following morning on the way to school I passed thousands of flat baby frogs on the road. I believe this early lesson may have inured me to the starkly beautiful viciousness of nature.
How wide is the entrance to the stairwell? Could you add a ramp at the sides so the frogs have a chance of getting up without inconveniencing the other people? It would also enable people with bikes to wheel them in easier (if any of the residents store bikes in their flats).
Is there any group/person who represents the views of the residents of the building(s)? Perhaps write a letter to them with the best solution to the problem you think of and let them sort it out?
Otherwise I would probably devise some form of frog capture device, so I could quickly and cleanly remove frogs (alive or dead). Some form of hinged box controlled by a line on a pole.
Edit: Err, read the frequency. Once every 2 weeks doesn’t justify taking a tool with you, Probably just take some gloves and rescue the frogs.
I would not be able to alter the stairwell in such a fashion. This is a commercial apartment complex with many other people living in the building. The mailboxes are also in this bottom-level stairwell, meaning it gets quite a bit of traffic aside from myself. I reiterate I have never seen another person help a frog, and the ratio has always been 1:1.
Other buildings in the apartment complex apparently also have this problem, as I asked someone who lived in another building if they’d ever seen a dead frog, and they said yes, on occasion, they see them when getting the mail. I did not ask if they saw any live frogs. There are at least 4 identical stairwells per building, and at least 6 buildings adjacent to a pond. This adds to my feelings of “this problem is too big for me.”
When I was a young child my dad was building an extension on our house. He dug a deep trench for the foundations and one morning I came down to find what my hazy memory suggests were thousands of baby frogs from a nearby lake. I spent some time ferrying buckets of tiny frogs from the trench to the top of our driveway in a bid to save them from their fate.
The following morning on the way to school I passed thousands of flat baby frogs on the road. I believe this early lesson may have inured me to the starkly beautiful viciousness of nature.
How wide is the entrance to the stairwell? Could you add a ramp at the sides so the frogs have a chance of getting up without inconveniencing the other people? It would also enable people with bikes to wheel them in easier (if any of the residents store bikes in their flats).
Is there any group/person who represents the views of the residents of the building(s)? Perhaps write a letter to them with the best solution to the problem you think of and let them sort it out?
Otherwise I would probably devise some form of frog capture device, so I could quickly and cleanly remove frogs (alive or dead). Some form of hinged box controlled by a line on a pole.
Edit: Err, read the frequency. Once every 2 weeks doesn’t justify taking a tool with you, Probably just take some gloves and rescue the frogs.