I think it is a Northern Bog Lemming...they are more common when the water is high like this year and everything along the shore is very swampy, and the interior of our island becomes a small pond with lots of moss around it. We don't see the lemmings often. We also had more snakes than usual too. But the spiders were less common, which I do appreciate.

This was quite large (almost 3 in long)... larger than a regular shrew. It was gray though with a rodent mouth and teeth, very unlike shrew snouts and teeth. Weez brought us 2 of these over the vacation. Many of the shrews Weezie caught were no bigger than your first thumb joint. Those were teensy, but very fast and she loved chasing them. She does not eat them or the lemmings.

We had a monster storm not too long ago that moved mountains of water...took our dock out... and grounded a 1000 ft freighter at the Mackinaw Bridge. I have a photo here from the St. Ignace News showing the offloading of the cargo of taconite iron ore into a 600 ft one (in front of the longer one).
The lightning behind both of them was typical for this summer.
We had a strike in our back yard area... which is the 3rd that we have seen up there so close. The first one in 1980 hit the house when I was there alone right around Labor Day. For some reason the lightning keeps hitting near us! ick ick I am thinking there is some iron deposits under the limestone?