For such money - an excellent zoom lens, it is convenient to shoot animals, birds. You just have to remember to tighten the aperture on very distant scenes, otherwise the depth of field is small, not everything always fits into it. for my taste, the real aperture is 8 and higher, but with VR you can shoot with this and not only during the day - I shot it with my hands at 300mm for 1/60 of a second shutter speed - it turns out sharply.