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View this email online Home   |   Photography   |   Animals   |   British Wildlife   |   Travel   |   Wildlife Gardens   |   Magazine       PHOTO GALLERY © Leon Baas   How to take macro photos Insects can be frustratingly skittish, so plants are the perfect place to take your first macro shots, according to bug photographer Leon Baas. Find out how to improve your close-up photography skills with Leon’s expert tips. Click here          IN THIS ISSUE       July issue – out now Browse through the latest issue of BBC Wildlife Magazine     Advertisement feature   This Month’s Highlights AMAZING ANIMALS 7 things you need to know about the brown long-eared bat Find out more  © Hugh Clark/www.bats.org.uk BRITISH WILDLIFE Watch six fantastic butterfly videos Find out more NATURE ACTIVITY How to make a bee hotel Find out more © Alan Batley  BBC WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHIC GRANT You could win £5000 Do you want to break into the world of professional wildlife photography? This new award, sponsored by Kowa, aims to find undiscovered talent and unearth exciting new wildlife stories.  Find out more  WILDLIFE TV AND RADIO Natural World: Tigers About the House on 16 July at 10am on BBC Two  Tiger expert Giles Clark hand rears two Sumatran tiger cubs called Spot and Stripe in his home. In this episode the cubs are eight-weeks-old and have become a big handful!  Read more    BBC WILDLIFE LOCAL PATCH REPORTERS Raspberry Pi and nesting blue tits Local Patch Reporter Duncan Richardson has been finding out how he can use a small computer to monitor wildlife. Find out more    WILD CHALLENGE FREE Download our guide to day-flying moths Get out this month to hone your day-flying moth spotting skills. Click here  WILDLIFE PODCAST Listen now The One Show presenter Mike Dilger on what it takes to put an orphaned elephant back into the wild. Plus flying ants and wildlife mysteries... Click here  WILDLIFE TALES Tell us about your wildlife travels Share your most exciting travel tale and you could see your story in print. We want people to post a synopsis of no more than 150 words on the forum telling us about a really memorable wildlife encounter. Find out more   July 2014 Photo Contest: Life on the coast This month, we want to see your best images of  wildlife found in coastal habitats. See all the entries, upload your photo and vote for your favourite.  Some of your favourites this week       Grey seal   Gannet in flight   Clifftop thrift   Sunrise starfish       *Offer only available to UK residents paying by Direct Debit. If you cancel within two weeks of receiving your fourth issue, you will pay no more than £5. Your subscription will start with the next available issue. Offer ends 18 July 2014. Unsubscribe | Privacy © Immediate Media Company Limited 2014 Registered in England No. 5715415 Registered Office: Vineyard House, 44 Brook Green, Hammersmith, London, W6 7BT.