Razzonater said..
There is one thing that concerns me in all photos and that is that all snakes are alive, therefore deadly. It would be much easier to identify the level of danger all snakes pose once there heads are removed with a shovel. IE headless snake= harmless if worried about upsetting greenies the best thing to do is to throw the snakes body back into the scrub where it can than regrow a new head, similair to a lizard growing its tail back.
95% of all accidents with snakes happen during attempt to kill the snake, when snake was provoked and responded to the attack.
I try to remain in the other 5% category an leave them alone

Wait, I did employ geese to chase them away. That is what I heard. Since I have two geese, no brown snakes around my pond.
The snake above just happen to be outside perimeter protected by geese due to fence around pond.
Before that I saw on may occasion something snaky looking swimming in the pond.