I have an Olympus LS-P1 that I bought off eBay for the perfectly logical reason of "that looks like it might be useful and it's really cheap"
I have an Olympus camera so I had the idea I could use it for better audio when I make videos - which could be true if I ever made videos. I appreciate I could do that with any make of recorder though.
Currently it sits on my desk and I use it to fuel dreams of having had a different career as an investigative journalist, and for digitising cassette tapes by connecting it to the headphone socket on my cassette deck. It also gets used when I have to use zoom, but post pandemic that isn't very often.
However, I often listen to ambient sounds when I'm working - waves, birds in the forest, running water - those kinds of things. And it occurs to me I could probably make my own.
I have a hairy / fluffy cover for the mics, and the LS-P1. I know the answer to this question is 'try it and see' but do you think that would be enough go capture the essence of a place? I know to pick out specific bird calls and so on I'd need a better mic and a parabola - thing - I'm just after the audio 'vibe' of somewhere that means something to me.