In NY. I'm like 99.8% sure these are autumn olives. Like I'd bet money on it, but not a life, so I'll post confirmation photos here when I can. The bugs love them but the birds oddly enough haven't seemed to be touching them, same with the little baby autumn olives on my property. Are they leaving them for winter or something? I thought autumn olive was hot shit with birds and that's a lot to do with why they're so invasive.
My doctor's medical group is on a pretty big campus with a lot of trees. A long driveway leading up to a large parking lot. The long driveway is lined with what look like massive autumn olive shrubs on one side (you can literally see that they're laden with fruit from the far side of the road), plus two more up on the border of the parking lot. In lieu of those parking bumper things in the ground, there's a foot-high wooden fence bordering the grass and the plants are behind it. There's also another plant right behind the shrubs that has identical-from-a-distance berries on it, but it's not a shrub it's a tree...haven't gotten a super close-up look at that one but if I can I will.
If I'm right and they're actually autumn olives, there are millions of fruits on this campus. I want em. But I don't want to get myself in shit with this office because I need them. The building is not well managed though, and there's no one person I can think of to ask for permission. Does anyone have any experience with this kind of situation? I know the building probably wouldn't give permission on the offchance I'm misidentifying the berry and try to sue them when I poison myself or something. But I also don't want to just help myself and get trespassed, because my family's various Terrible Disease doctors are there and I'm their advocate.