Bee nest generated with exit facing tree

A bee nest spontaneously generated on one of my oak trees with the entrance(side with holes) facing the tree.  This rendered it non-functional until I had cleared the exit (immediately after which bees poured out).

The attached screenshot shows the tree in question after I had rearranged it to suit the hive better.

Device:Samsung J701F/DS

World seed:1024 (manually entered)

Version: 1.17.10.23 beta

Note: This could possibly be a variation of the norm and not a bug, but as I have never encountered this before and it happened on a beta, I thought it best to report it.