Hi John,
I truly understand that all these creatures have to eat, but those poor little toads. All of the large toads I rescued moved to the front of my house and over to the neighbors apple orchard. Also the tree frogs moved up to my house. I don't even weedwhack around the gardens because of the toads, hand pull all the weeds.
When we had that pool which was quite large filled with swampy water and the frogs all those years, people were amazed that we never had mosquitoes.
Debbie