Rhododendron Sprites?

 

All of these twigs are on a very large dead rhododendron tree that was uprooted in the wake of an enormous tulip poplar that was uprooted and knocked over in our fierce tornado-watch winds last week.

 

The one non-rhododendron thing is 9898, which was lying under the tulip poplar and may be a part of a tulip poplar cone.