Just got back from Circle B Bar Reserve in Lakeland, and it's really happening right now.
The white pelicans are back in mass at Lake Hancock and fly around the clock like a Monday morning at Laguardia.
Arrive around sunrise and work the marsh hare pond area then take the trail to the pelicans with the sun at your back.
Besides the white pelican show; plenty of spoonies in the ponds and in flight; lots of sandhill cranes; limpkins; migratory ducks (shovelers; and blue and green wing teals); whistling ducks all over as well.
Some bald eagle flybys possible (though I only saw one in the nest; the flybys were recorded the day before I arrived). Painted Buntings reported; as well as a plethora of warblers, phoebes, cardinals; gnat catchers; anhinga; wood storks all over; and of course plenty of red shoulder hawks around.
I saw, but did not get shot of 3 river otters along the banks of the main trail which was sweet.