There are no seedlings that I could find, there are some vertical side-branches from a main branch that runs along the ground and is buried by leaf/pine litter, these verticals are actually still attached to the main tree even though they appear at first glance to be separate.
Make a new sighting and link it to this by adding the sighting number in Comments. I didn't clear any vegetation when I did the first sighting but assumed they were seedlings.