So, how do these exceptional squirrels relocate the hundreds of nuts they’ve hidden? How squirrels find their nuts, in a nutshellAccording to Perlut, squirrels don’t use a single strategy to recover their stashes. Even months later, squirrels can easily find where they’ve buried their nuts. bury earlier in 2013, William ForscheEven months later, squirrels can easily find where they’ve buried their nuts. One 1980 urban study estimated that gray squirrels retrieve roughly 85 percent of their cached nuts.