Good year for grasshoppers

There is a lot of wildlife here that is having a bad year - butterflies, swallows and sparrows for example. Grasshoppers are having a great year however. Each step in the field can initiate a swarm of fleeing grasshoppers. I left the front door open for a while and came back to find five Meadow Grasshoppers in the porch. The photo is one of the porch squatters sitting on the doormat.