Peter Bergdahl's Personal Blog

Two times a year it’s grasshopper season in Uganda and now in December it’s high season for them. They’re swarming everywhere and I can’t even open up my door without some of them flying in to the house.

Plenty of grasshoppers also mean plenty of food for lizards, birds and even human beings (you can buy grasshoppers in big sacks. I took this image with my phone camera just above the door to my house. It’s a gecko lizard enjoying a grasshopper almost of the same size as the gecko.

Grasshopper & Gecko in Uganda

I quite recently came to Uganda for a longer assignment and one thing is for sure – a rainfall is really a rainfall in Uganda and not just small showers.

Now, the drainage next to my house is also plugged with grass and dirt so it doesn’t drain all water quickly enough as you can see half way in to this video. I hesitated for a while before i ran up the stair because I knew what to expect.