Could they be wild chokecherries?

No chokecherry for sure.

I'd say it looks like pincherry

LOL...no pin cherry for sure.

Could be a Lonicera species (honeysuckle).

Honeysuckle?

A few times I've seen honeysuckle bushes growing in the wild that must have sprouted forth from bird droppings. I believe the fruit is edbile?

Terrance

Lonicera, although edible, taste horrible, other than the honeyberries.

Looks like Buffaloberry to me. There wasn't a bear nearby, was there? ;)

I agree. The native honeysuckle. That's what I see on mine and the leaves definitely look like honeysuckle. Marg

They look like honeysuckle to me. Took this picture this AM. Seem to start out as a single berry and then another one seems to grow out of it and it becomes two

Were the leaves more green than silver?

Thank you all!
This looks like it, [Honeysuckle] there was no seed inside,..if I remember correctly? .. Seen about 3 plants, more pictures...

I was going to ask for a picture of the backside of the leaf and one of the the bark this morning, and here they are already. For the future, telltale signs of S. canadensis are orange-dotted bark and brown scales on the back of the leaves. Your latest pictures definitely show neither of these, so not Buffalo-berry.

The last photo has honeysuckle flowers on it too, so if that's your mystery berry, it's no longer a mystery ;-)

Those light colored leaves at the end of some of the branches on the last picture are Witches Brooms caused by aphids. I snip mine off but they just appear on another branch. Ugly so that is why I am down to one HS bush and it may go too.

Yay Gilly wins. ;0) I have several in my yard and they're very ugly shrubs. They always look diseased, like they have insects or blight or something although I never see any insects.

They also have very, very tough wood and rough bark which for some reason attracts cats. They like the smell and will often chew on it or scratch it.

Oh, they looked like flowers on my computer. Maybe time to get a new monitor :)

This HS is old like everything else around here. Dad cut it down a few times and of course it comes back stronger. There are actually two here and I have had people come around to buy the wood for cat and dog toys. My dogs don't seem to bother it. I love the smell of the blooms in the spring and I think the birds (some birds) eat the berries.

Yours looks much nicer than mine do Honalee. I should post a pic and maybe someone could tell me what's wrong with them.

They didn't always look that good. Dad never pruned them or cleaned them out. I have pruned them heavily over the past two years and watered the heck out of them. Even the scraggly one looks better. The aphids are insane this year. I was under the impression that aphids like the dry weather but they have been worse in the past 2 years of soggy summers. Lots of Witches Brooms like Beegood stated this year. I'll get a full pic of them and post it so you can compare. They sure look and smell beautiful in the spring in bloom!

I took a picture and now that I look, I think they're suffering from leaf miners and powdery mildew. Really awful looking shrubs in my yard. DH wants to cut them down but they provide a bit of privacy from the front street.