Terry, no, just refraction from the flash.

I believe they are anomala but as you said, they can be tough to tell as babies. Hopefully I will be able to answer more questions in the near future about specifics of the species. I can say that the anomala babies and the melanistic adult all had a super great feeding response and did not hesitate or not feed one single time. In fact when we were filming the adult, I set it up in a rack and tried a mouse the first day which it immediately took. I then took the film crew outside with the snake and placed it on the ground. I stunned a mouse and it immediately took it. We did that 3 times, each time placing the mouse further away to try to film its "hunt". I would liken their feeding response to that of a big bull snake. Grab it, go crazy and suck it down lickity split. Unlike a cal king though, as soon as you touch it or pick it up there feeding response vanishes and they become very mellow. I have never been bitten by one.

thanks, Don

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