Seen them in many palces over the years. Nothing in this part of the world like that looks like that and is indigenous is consumable. I broke one open once and tasted it and it was bitter.
Looks like you've found an excellent area to sit near! Find some shade.... a little downwind of that spot...with your back to the south... and game on!
PS... there's another species... where the cherries right about now start getting orange/yellowish. The choke cherries. They are mostly a great big pit in the center. But their small amount of flesh is freakin' delicious! Bears woof down massive quatities of them whole and take massive dumps filled with the pits. The deers eat'em too. Seems like they grow nearish to where water-ways pass thru.
I have found the above Berry scat numerous times while quail hunting over the years in San Bernardino Mountains. I always thought they were Manzanita berries eaten by bears.
Um... pretty sure Manzanita berries will kinda look more like this... but a little "wetter" and with bits of the red skin showing in it here and there. I'll see if I have a better pic.
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