Parents' Guide to Spring Watch USA

SPRING WATCH USA takes viewers on a coast-to-coast field trip to get a close-up look at how the animal world awakens to spring throughout the United States -- from gray whales off the California coast to flying squirrels in Northern Virginia. Using cameras mounted in natural habitats across the country, series hosts Jeff Corwin and Vanessa Garnick monitor the activities of creatures like raccoons, foxes, alligators, bald eagles, and groundhogs. From their post on Kiawah Island, South Carolina, they also personally check in on the vast array of local species -- screech owls, blue birds, and bobcats, to name just a few -- tracking their movements and explaining how their eating, sleeping, and mating habits change with the arrival of spring. Correspondents David Mizejewski and Phillippe Cousteau (grandson of Jacques) share roaming-reporter duty, following sea life (migratory gray whales, sea lions, otters and more) off the California coast and wild animals like beavers, great horned owls, and black bear on the Eastern side of the country. The show's "Wild Eye" feature attaches fiber-optic cameras to creatures as tiny as a cricket, giving both hosts and viewers a glimpse the world from the animals' and insects' unique points of view.