Looking for a new home

I should say, hacking out a new home, and there was certainly hard work involved. Perhaps it was too difficult because this hairy woodpecker abandoned this attempt.

Or did he give up because of location? This bloomed out agave stalk is just a couple of meters from the patio and would have been subject to daily traffic to and from the bird feeder. It would have been great to watch some woodpecker young being raised from the kitchen window, but alas.