Stardate 3.21e99

Today we saw a bluejay. It was the most amazing thing we've ever seen. As it emerged from the nebula in the Canis Major Dwarf galaxy and "saw" us it let out a cry like the brakes of a freight train straining to halt the angular momentum of supersonic spokes. A shock wave sent a shudder through the ship before any of our veteran bird watchers had even spotted the electric blue of the birds backside.
Once the alert sounded, everyone on the ship ran to the windows on the port side to get a better look. This, of course, caused the ship to spin on the axis running from front to back. Without the aide of friction to slow our swirl, we were forced to take action.
All together we ran to the other side of the ship. As it began to slow, one by one we redistributed ourselves randomly throughout so as to not incite further spinning on any axis.
unfortunately, in all the commotion, we forgot about the blue jay. Fortunately, it had apparently found the spinning spaceship quite amusing and had approached to investigate. This was our first insight into the behavior of intergalactic birds. Apparently, they haven't learned to fear poachers. I'm not convinced that they have any reason to fear anything; I don't think they can even be killed. I mean how do you kill something that is pure energy. This is just my opinion though. We havn't been able to perform any "biological" analysis to determine what they actually might be.
Staring out the window at this insubstantial incomprehensibly sized vision of life in its purest state left me with a feeling of great euphoria coupled with apprehensive anxiety about where we've been and towards what we might be headed. With its light colored beak set between its twinkling eyes in front of its burning bright brain above its lightning bolt blue back with its wings outstretched steadying itself in the wind of stellar radiation and the bombardment of particle transportation, it let out a sound that I imagined to be a small laugh and returned to the cloud of gas and dust from which it came. I assume it went to tell the others of our arrival and our ineptitude. By the time we have our next encounter, I hope our engineers with have figured out how to keep the ship from flipping out.

Stardate 1e99

Towards which our jouney will take us we know not; however, one of the brighter spots seems more likely to me.