Menghuan Pond at Yangmingshan NP, January 2025
Menghuan Pond at Yangmingshan NP, Taipei City, 28th January 2025
夢幻湖, 陽明山國家公園, 台北市, 2025年1月28日
Yangmingshan is one of Taiwan's national parks and one of its most popular tourist destinations. Whether on weekdays or weekends, it is almost always filled with visitors.
Menghuan pond, located near Lengshuikeng in Yangmingshan, is a nationally protected wetland. Not long after I began exploring field recording, I noticed that this place was frequently mentioned in online discussions, which made me want to experience it for myself.
For this visit, I chose the morning of Lunar New Year's Eve, hoping the holiday would bring fewer people and allow me to record with as little human disturbance as possible.
Perhaps because it was winter, the frogs were relatively inactive, and only a few isolated calls could be heard around the lake. In the recording, you'll hear a single frog calling from the right at fairly close range. It was also a windy day, making wind noise more noticeable than I had hoped.
Unfortunately, my expectation of a quieter New Year's Eve proved misplaced. Visitors were just as numerous as on any other day, and conversations, passing cars, and even aircraft repeatedly found their way into the microphones. After recording for about an hour, I gave up and retreated to Lengshuikeng to catch the bus back down the mountain.
📍 Location: 25.167091, 121.560599 Taipei City, Taiwan
🌤 Weather: 14°C, Windy, 80% Humidity
🌿 Ambient Sound: Frogs, Wind
🎤 Setup: Schoeps MK2 (AB), Sonosax SX-M2D2
陽明山夢幻湖, 2025年1月
陽明山是台灣的國家公園，也是熱門的觀光景點，不論平日假日，遊客總是絡繹不絕。
位於陽明山冷水坑附近的夢幻湖，是臺灣的國家級溼地。剛開始接觸錄音不久，查詢網路資料時發現這裡時常被提及。
這次選擇在除夕的上午前往夢幻湖錄音，希望可以將人為的干擾降到最低。
可能是冬季所以蛙並不活躍，夢幻湖只有零星的蛙叫聲。錄音中可以聽到來自右邊距離較近有一隻蛙叫，外加今天的風比較大，風噪聲比較顯著，而且我對人少的期待也落了空，遊客並沒有因為除夕而減少，聊天、汽車及飛機的噪音不斷地進入麥克風的收音範圍，最終我錄了1個小時左右就逃離似的回到冷水坑坐公車下山。