Forget water beetles, forget dragonflies, forget all that, and instead look closely at the photo below:
Do you see it? Just to the right of the two rocks…
We have a toad! All right, so he was here all along (The Flâneur Husband narrowly missed him while he was mowing the lawn the day before yesterday) but that same afternoon he went for a swim! In The Puddles!!! And he stayed there for hours on end, sitting on the sloping rock and seemingly enjoying himself!