What are the squirrels burying ?

[DustyLee123]

I keep finding, what looks like, a round nut shell and it often has a root type growth protruding from it. What is it ?

A nut?

It looks like a nut, but where would they get them from ? Are there nut bushes around that I’ve not noticed ? I find lots of them.

From trees - acorns, walnuts etc.

Plum? Cherry? Apricot? Acorn?
I don’t have any of those trees in my gardens but neighbours do and the squirrels bury the seeds in my garden.

Acorns, sweet chestnuts, horse chestnuts, hazelnuts, walnuts - all widespread in UK.

It’s a round shell, slightly smaller and lighter in colour than a walnut. The shell divides down the middle, and a root grows from in it.
im just trying to identify the shell.

Can you post a picture? Or find a similar image online?

Cob nuts? We have several trees around here

Potentially it is a walnut.

Sounds like a hazelnut.

acorn

If it's small and round I would assume a hazelnut, aka cobnut.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corylus_avellana

No, not this.
I’ll post a pic next time I find one !

No

You probably have a Common Walnut tree growing close by.

Which country are you in? That might narrow it down. Also consider neighbours might be feeding the squirrels. Mine enjoy peanuts, monkey nuts, hazelnuts and shelled walnuts. Fortunately my neighbours enjoy watching them too 😂

Why do they bury them?

Mine are burying monkey nuts and then attempting to dig up all my bulbs <seethes>

Because squirrels don't have pockets

Mostly my crocus bulbs bloody annoying

They have big cheeks like pockets

Thought it was so they had access to food through the winter?? I always thought that was common knowledge but now wondering if I made that up.

I think i would still prefer pockets to big cheeks...

Nah, that's hamsters

There's a theory that most woodland in the UK comes from Squirrels burying nuts and then forgetting them.