The home ranges of male and female bobcats may overlap, but home ranges of females rarely overlap with each other. Seasonal range differences may also occur. Winter ranges of male bobcats in California were up to 41 percent smaller than summer ranges. Rock piles or broken rocky ledges provide important den sites and shelter for bobcats, especially in the West. During periods of heavy rain or high temperatures, bobcats used these areas for shelter almost exclusively.
Bobcats also use brush piles, hollow trees, and logs as rest sites and dens.
Foraging cover - Bobcats often hunt in open to semiopen areas. Bobcats are opportunistic and will attempt to take almost any prey available, including insects, fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals. Mammalian prey, however, is often the most common prey in the bobcat diet. Cotton rats may be more important than eastern cottontails from Florida to Louisiana. Bobcats are not commonly preyed upon.