If they're like my piggies, they will huddle and hide like you've just thrown them in a snake pit the moment you take them outside. Mine were so freaked out being outside. Maybe b/c they aren't use to it, maybe bc one of them had a very traumatic 'in the wild' experience. And since I, too, live in a cooler (so far) climate and can't take them out every day, I've given up on taking them out. Maybe I'll try again, but definitely when it's much warmer.
I'm also not sure that the deck is the best place for them. They may not like the feeling on their paws, it may open them to splinters, possibly getting one of their little paws stuck in the space between the boards and I kind of feel like it will make them sitting ducks for birds of prey. I put a net over their play pen the day I took them out as a precaution for the birds.