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It helps if you already have hummingbirds in the area. But yeah, I've gotten a handful of hummingbirds pretty used to hanging out around me, along with a few other species (I even had a spotted towhee eating from my hand before I had to move).
Set up a feeder for them along with flowers (the trumpet-shaped types so that they can fit their weirdo tongues in there), start watching them where they can see you, and there's a pretty good chance you'll get them to hang out and relax even with you right there. As much as a hummingbird ever relaxes. Then they might come right up to you when you're wearing red or bright orange.
For songbirds, a suet feeder is pretty great for drawing them close.