Unidentified Flowerpecker?

[Ramon Quisumbing]

Last June, I took these documentary photos from about 40 meters away of 2 tiny birds feeding on a flowering shrub on a tree (like a mistletoe) in BK Valley, Mt. Banahaw (2,500 feet elevation). I thought they were Bicolored Flowerpeckers (Dicaeum bicolor), but 2 days ago I took clear photos of a male Bicolored Flowerpecker, and the beaks of these 2 are very different and they have olive green in their backs and underparts.

ID please.

[Neon Rosell II]

Wow, the mistletoes are fruiting already at BK. Nice shots of what I think is a male Pygmy Flowerpecker, Ramon. There are several races with this one having a sort of light gray spot on its keel, which is present in the race davao found in Mindanao. The PFP we mostly see in Luzon are without the black spot.

[Ramon Quisumbing]

Thank you for the ID, Neon. This is a lifer for me.

This mistletoe flowers in June when the host tree has lost all its leaves, so the mistletoe is in the sunshine. I took these photos last June. Thanks again.

[Steve Albano]

Congrats on your lifer.. .

[Ramon Quisumbing]

Thanks, Steve.