Yes, many encounters. The first was with Elizabeth Compston whom we also lost recently. Both Elizabeth and Margaret, each in their way, took a keen interest in the nesting spoonbills in the Tortured Willow in font of
Cygnus Hide. Early one morning in early December 2008 Elizabeth and I entered the hide to find a diminutive figure in a wheelchair busily snapping away through the lower centre aperture. Elizabeth and I took up positions on either side, saying little out
of respect for the intensely concentrating disabled individual who had managed to manipulate a wheelchair from the carpark and into the hide in what must have been semi-darkness. The quiet watching was punctuated by frequent ‘BRRRT, BRRRTs’ from Margaret’s
camera, evidently in fast-frame mode. After more than a half-hour the photographer spoke, ‘I think that’s enough’, jumped up, put all the gear in the wheelchair, and briskly wheeled it off out the door. Elizabeth and I gaped in amazement.
From: Canberrabirds <>
On Behalf Of sandra henderson via Canberrabirds
Sent: Thursday, 20 January 2022 4:17 AM
To: Philip Veerman <>
Cc: Canberra birds <>
Subject: Re: [Canberrabirds] RIP Margaret Leggoe
Yes, she was a retired veterinarian, and she was in Wanniassa, down near Erindale.
Sandra
On Wednesday, 19 January 2022, Philip Veerman <> wrote:
I am trying to recall, I don’t know of her in respect of any wheelchair or photography but I suspect
I visited her a few times, I don’t know for sure about 15 years ago and she lived in Wanniassa and her work role was something in veterinary science. Is that correct?
Philip
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Sent: Wednesday, 19 January, 2022 4:59 PM
To: Canberra birds
Subject: [Canberrabirds] RIP Margaret Leggoe
Margaret passed away Jan 13.
Some members will remember her stunning shots of some of the birds of Callum Brae, especially of the Nankeen Kestrels. She was instantly recognisable, using a wheelchair to get
her heavy camera to the right spot, then sitting under a tarp waiting patiently for the right shot. My favourite memory is the day I had a juvenile sea-eagle fly over my home in Wanniassa - a few moments later Margaret (also in Wanniassa), took a photo as
it passed over her place.
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