While photographing wildflowers in the eastern Scarborough Bluffs region, I came across lots of honeysuckle:

Our principal honeysuckle shrub in this area is Tartarian Honeysuckle:

Morrow Honeysuckle, a native of Japan, is also common and frequently hybridizes with Tartarian Honeysuckle.

Berries of various colours are possible:

Amur Honeysuckle from western Asia is becoming more common:

As you can see in this photo, the fruit of Amur Honeysuckle can persist into winter:

As a child, we had a honeysuckle bush in the front yard and, one day, tempted by those candy-looking berries, I ate one. An awful taste and I’ve never tried another.

Tartarian Honeysuckle berries are toxic and Amur Honeysuckle berries are even worse being poisonous to human beings.

Other botany:

NATURE POETRY

The patient fisher takes his silent strand,
Intent, his angle trembling in his hand:
With looks unmov’d, he hopes the scaly breed,
And eyes the dancing cork and bending reed.    – Alexander Pope (1688–1744)

Miles Hearn