Try heating up the prey item more next time, under a blow dryer.
Head should feel warm to your fingertips.
BP are scent and heat based predators, so when looking to strike they only have the heat of the item and bad eyesight to work with. Heating the item past your body temp and enclosure temp allows them to pinpoint it far more easily with the bonus of also making the prey item smell stronger. Been doing this for a while and my boy's feeding response keeps getting stronger and stronger, he all but ripped it off the tongs the second it was in his reach last time.
(He came to me with some food refusal/fasting issues and a weak feeding response.)
Also, try feeding at times the snake is already awake. A half-awake snake is clumsy and may miss several times, leading to a "fear" response of moving away/hiding from the prey since their ability to ambush it has been nullified.
Wait a week before feeding again. The snake's stressed now and if it has issues again it's more likely to set up a pattern of food refusal and fear, which will cause the animal to fast.
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